applied Alex's so-it's-ids.patch

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1941 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

appendixa/psmisc-desc.xml

@@ -9,16 +9,16 @@ because we use pidof from sysvinit instead.</para></sect3>
 <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
 
 <sect4><title>fuser</title>
-<para>fuser displays the PIDs of processes using the specified files or file 
+<para>fuser displays the PIDs of processes that use the specified
-systems.</para></sect4>
+files or file systems.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>killall</title>
 <para>killall sends a signal to all processes running any of the specified 
 commands.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pidof</title>
-<para>pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs and
+<para>pidof displays the process identifiers (PIDs) of the named
-prints those id's on standard output.</para></sect4>
+programs.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pstree</title>
 <para>pstree shows running processes as a tree.</para></sect4>

appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml

@@ -107,9 +107,9 @@ files.</para></sect4>
 <para>sg executes command as a different group ID.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>su</title>
-<para>su changes the effective user id and group id to that of a given user.
+<para>su changes the effective user and group IDs to that of a given user.
-This replaces the su programs that's installed from the
+(This program replaces the su program installed from the
-Sh-utils package.</para></sect4>
+Sh-utils package.)</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>useradd</title>
 <para>useradd creates a new user or update default new user 

appendixa/shellutils-desc.xml

@@ -47,11 +47,11 @@ integer numbers.</para></sect4>
 host.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>hostname</title>
-<para>hostname sets or prints the name of the current host system.</para></sect4>
+<para>hostname prints or sets the name of the current host system.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>id</title>
-<para>id prints the real and effective UIDs and GIDs of a user or the current
+<para>id prints the effective user and group IDs of the current
-user.</para></sect4>
+user or a given user.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>logname</title>
 <para>logname prints the current user's login name.</para></sect4>
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ increment.</para></sect4>
 <para>stty changes and prints terminal line settings.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>su</title>
-<para>su runs a shell with substitute user and group ID's.</para></sect4>
+<para>su runs a shell with substitute user and group IDs.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>tee</title>
 <para>tee reads from standard input and writes to standard output and 
@@ -121,10 +121,12 @@ current host.</para></sect4>
 <para>who shows who is logged on.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>whoami</title>
-<para>whoami prints the user's effective userid.</para></sect4>
+<para>whoami prints the user name associated with the current
+effective user ID.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>yes</title>
-<para>yes outputs a string repeatedly until killed.</para></sect4>
+<para>yes outputs 'y' or a given string repeatedly,
+until killed.</para></sect4>
 
 </sect3>
 

appendixa/sysvinit-desc.xml

@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ file /var/log/btmp, which contains all the bad login attempts.</para></sect4>
 used to allow or disallow other users to write to his terminal.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pidof</title>
-<para>pidof finds the process id's (pids) of the named programs and prints
+<para>pidof displays the process identifiers (PIDs) of the named
-those id's on standard output.</para></sect4>
+programs.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>poweroff</title>
 <para>poweroff is equivalent to shutdown -h -p now. It halts the computer and

chapter06/glibc-exp.xml

@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ it hasn't been installed yet.</para>
 <para><userinput>sed 's/root/0' login/Makefile.backup &gt;
 login/Makefile:</userinput> This sed command replaces all occurrences of
 <filename>root</filename> in <filename>login/Makefile.backup</filename>
-with 0. This is because we don't have glibc on the LFS system yet, so
+with 0. This is necessary because we don't have glibc on the LFS system yet, so
-usernames can't be resolved to their user id's. Therefore, we replace
+user names can't be resolved to their user IDs. Therefore, we replace
-the username root with user id 0.</para>
+the user name "root" with user ID 0.</para>
 
 <para><userinput>--enable-add-ons:</userinput> This enables the add-on that
 we install with Glibc: linuxthreads</para>

chapter06/pwdgroup.xml

@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
 <title>Creating passwd and group files</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="pwdgroup.html" dir="chapter06"?>
 
-<para>In order for the user and group root to be recognized and to be able to 
+<para>In order for the user and the group "root" to be recognized and to be
-login, there needs to be an entry in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group file. 
+able to login, there need to be entries in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group file. 
-Besides the group root, a couple of other groups are recommended and needed by
+Besides the group "root", a couple of other groups are recommended or needed
-packages. The groups created below aren't part of any standard.
+by some packages. The groups created below aren't part of any standard.
-The LSB only recommends a group bin with GID 1 to be present besides 
+The LSB only recommends a group "bin" with GID 1 to be present besides 
-group root. Other group names and GID's can be chosen by the user. Well
+"root". Other group names and GIDs can be chosen by the user.
-written packages don't depend on GID numbers but just use the group
+Well-written packages don't depend on GID numbers, but use the group's
-name, so it doesn't matter which GID a group has. Since there
+name; so it doesn't matter which GID a group has. Since there
-aren't any standards for groups the groups created here are the groups the
+aren't any standards for groups, the groups created here are the groups the
 MAKEDEV script (the script that creates the device files in the /dev
 directory) mentions.</para>
 

chapter07/usage.xml

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ This is used after the configuration file of a service was modified, when
 the service doesn't need to be restarted.</para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para><emphasis>status</emphasis>: Tells if the service 
-is running and with which PID's.</para></listitem>
+is running and with which PIDs.</para></listitem>
 
 </itemizedlist>