Package: nis Version: 3.17-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi Mark!
Could you apply this patch to fix some typos on the manpage of ypbind, please? Thank you and best regards! Nelson -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.19-beyond2 Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
diff -urN nis-3.17.old/ypbind-mt-1.20.1/man/ypbind.8.in nis-3.17/ypbind-mt-1.20.1/man/ypbind.8.in --- nis-3.17.old/ypbind-mt-1.20.1/man/ypbind.8.in 2006-12-29 00:36:23.000000000 -0200 +++ nis-3.17/ypbind-mt-1.20.1/man/ypbind.8.in 2006-12-29 01:25:20.000000000 -0200 @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ .SH DESCRIPTION .B ypbind finds the server for NIS domains and maintains the NIS binding -information. The client (normaly the NIS routines in the standard C library) +information. The client (normally the NIS routines in the standard C library) could get the information over RPC from .B ypbind or read the binding files. The binding files resides in the directory @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ .B ypbind will behave as usual and assumes there is a working network connection. If NetworkManager is running on the system, ypbind will only -search and providde NIS informations, if NetworkManager tells that a network +search and provide NIS informations, if NetworkManager tells that a network connection is available. If NetworkManager establishes a connection, .B ypbind will reread all configuration files, registers at the local portmapper and @@ -170,8 +170,8 @@ .BR \-ypset , but only .B root -on the local machine is allowed to chang the binding. Such requests -are only allowd from +on the local machine is allowed to change the binding. Such requests +are only allowed from .BR loopback . .TP .B "\-c" @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ will not check if the binding is alive. This option is for use with dialup connections to prevent .B ypbind -from keeping the connection unnessecarily open or causing autodials. +from keeping the connection unnecessarily open or causing autodials. .TP .BR "\-f" " configfile" .B ypbind @@ -210,13 +210,13 @@ .TP .B "\-local-only" .B ypbind -will only bind to the loopback device and is not reacheable from +will only bind to the loopback device and is not reachable from a remote network. .TP .BR "\-ping-interval" " ping-interval" The default value for . B ypbind -to check, if a NIS server is still reacheable, is 20 seconds. +to check, if a NIS server is still reachable, is 20 seconds. With this options another frequency in seconds can be specified. .TP .B "\-no-dbus"

