From 7534ecb2ca38781ca34c692372908201a547298a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 11:36:20 +1200 Subject: [PATCH] nsswitch.conf.5: Minor fix-ups after comments from Mark Bannister Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man5/nsswitch.conf.5 | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 b/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 index 83cc5f84b..5f9d31072 100644 --- a/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 +++ b/man5/nsswitch.conf.5 @@ -21,17 +21,17 @@ .\" Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, .\" MA 02111, USA. .\" -.TH NSSWITCH.CONF 5 2012-03-29 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH NSSWITCH.CONF 5 2012-04-14 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME nsswitch.conf \- Name Service Switch configuration file .SH DESCRIPTION -The -.I /etc/nsswitch.conf -("Name Server Switch", NSS) -file is a configuration file used by the GNU C Library to determine +The Name Service Switch (NSS) configuration file, +.IR /etc/nsswitch.conf , +is used by the GNU C Library to determine the sources from which to obtain name-service information in a range of categories, and in what order. +(The " Each category of information is identified by a database name. .LP The file is plain ASCII text, with columns separated by spaces or tab @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ On systems with additional libraries installed, you may have access to further services such as "hesiod", "ldap", "winbind" and "wins". .LP An action may also be specified following a service specification. -The action modifies the behaviour following a result obtained +The action modifies the behavior following a result obtained from the preceding data source. Action items take the general form: .LP @@ -333,8 +333,9 @@ Service (NIS) and the Domain Name Service (DNS), became popular, a method was needed that would be more flexible than fixed search orders coded into the C library. -The Names Server Switch mechanism -(based on the mechanism used by Sun Microsystems in the Solaris 2 C library) +The Name Service Switch mechanism, +which was based on the mechanism used by +Sun Microsystems in the Solaris 2 C library, introduced a cleaner solution to the problem. .SH SEE ALSO .BR getent (1),