Package: dnsmasq-base Version: 2.41-2 Severity: minor Tags: patch
Found some typos in '/usr/share/man/man8/dnsmasq.8.gz', see attached '.diff'. Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dnsmasq-base depends on: ii libc6 2.7-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.1.20-1 simple interprocess messaging syst dnsmasq-base recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
--- dnsmasq.8 2008-02-27 15:05:58.000000000 -0500 +++ /tmp/dnsmasq.8 2008-03-01 03:26:47.000000000 -0500 @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ .B \-8, --log-facility=<facility> Set the facility to which dnsmasq will send syslog entries, this defaults to DAEMON, and to LOCAL0 when debug mode is in operation. If -the facilty given contains at least one '/' character, it is taken to +the facility given contains at least one '/' character, it is taken to be a filename, and dnsmasq logs to the given file, instead of syslog. (Errors whilst reading configuration will still go to syslog, but all output from a successful startup, and all output whilst @@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ the given interface. This flag specifies an A record for the given name in the same way as an /etc/hosts line, except that the address is not constant, but taken from the given interface. If the interface is -down, not configured or non-existant, an empty record is returned. The +down, not configured or non-existent, an empty record is returned. The matching PTR record is also created, mapping the interface address to the name. More than one name may be associated with an interface address by repeating the flag; in that case the first instance is used @@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ options. If the lease time is given, then leases will be given for that length of time. The lease time is in seconds, or minutes (eg 45m) or hours (eg 1h) or the literal "infinite". The -minimum lease time is two minutres. This +minimum lease time is two minutes. This option may be repeated, with different addresses, to enable DHCP service to more than one network. For directly connected networks (ie, networks on which the machine running dnsmasq has an interface) the @@ -635,7 +635,7 @@ .B --dhcp-ignore-names[=<network-id>[,<network-id>]] When all the given network-ids match the set of network-ids derived from the net, host, vendor and user classes, ignore any hostname -provided by the host. Note that, unlike dhcp-ignore, it is permissable +provided by the host. Note that, unlike dhcp-ignore, it is permissible to supply no netid tags, in which case DHCP-client supplied hostnames are always ignored, and DHCP hosts are added to the DNS using only dhcp-host configuration in dnsmasq and the contents of /etc/hosts and @@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ unknown leases from unknown hosts are not ignored. This allows new hosts to get a lease without a tedious timeout under all circumstances. It also allows dnsmasq to rebuild its lease database without each client needing to -reaquire a lease, if the database is lost. +reacquire a lease, if the database is lost. .TP .B \-3, --bootp-dynamic Enable dynamic allocation of IP addresses to BOOTP clients. Use this @@ -728,9 +728,9 @@ removed, an "old" event is generated with the new state of the lease, ie no name, and the former name is provided in the environment variable DNSMASQ_OLD_HOSTNAME. DNSMASQ_INTERFACE stores the name of -the interface on which the reuest arrived; this is not set for "old" +the interface on which the request arrived; this is not set for "old" actions when dnsmasq restarts. -All file decriptors are +All file descriptors are closed except stdin, stdout and stderr which are open to /dev/null (except in debug mode). The script is not invoked concurrently: if subsequent lease @@ -902,7 +902,7 @@ dnsmasq will not be running as root. When it first creates the logfile dnsmasq changes the ownership of the file to the non-root user it will run as. Logrotate should be configured to create a new log file with -the ownership which matches the exising one before sending SIGUSR2. +the ownership which matches the existing one before sending SIGUSR2. If TCP DNS queries are in progress, the old logfile will remain open in child processes which are handling TCP queries and may continue to be written. There is a limit of 150 seconds, after which all existing TCP @@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@ 2 - A problem with network access occurred (address in use, attempt to use privileged ports without permission). .PP -3 - A problem occured with a filesystem operation (missing +3 - A problem occurred with a filesystem operation (missing file/directory, permissions). .PP 4 - Memory allocation failure.
