applied Alex's small-edits.patch

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1961 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

appendixa/shadowpwd-desc.xml

@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@ vipw</para></sect3>
 the last password change.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>chfn</title>
-<para>chfn changes user full name, office number, office extension, and home 
-phone number information for a user's account.</para></sect4>
+<para>chfn changes a user's full name and other information
+(office room number, office phone number, and
+home phone number).</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>chpasswd</title>
 <para>chpasswd reads a file of user name and password pairs from standard 
@@ -93,18 +94,19 @@ users.</para></sect4>
 <para>passwd changes passwords for user and group accounts.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pwck</title>
-<para>pwck verifies the integrity of the system authentication 
-information.</para></sect4>
+<para>pwck verifies the integrity of the password files.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pwconv</title>
-<para>pwconv converts to shadow passwd files from normal passwd 
-files.</para></sect4>
+<para>pwconv converts the normal password file
+to a shadowed password file.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>pwunconv</title>
-<para>pwunconv converts from shadow passwd files to normal files.</para></sect4>
+<para>pwunconv converts a shadowed password file
+to a normal password file.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>sg</title>
-<para>sg executes command as a different group ID.</para></sect4>
+<para>sg sets the user's GID to that of the given group, or executes a
+given command as member of the given group.</para></sect4>
 
 <sect4><title>su</title>
 <para>su changes the effective user and group IDs to that of a given user.

chapter06/lilo-inst.xml

@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 <sect2>
 <title>Installation of Lilo</title>
 
-<para>We have chosen Lilo because we feel comfortable with it, but you 
-may wish to take a look elsewhere. Someone has written a hint on 
-GRUB at <ulink url="&hints-root;grub-howto.txt"/>, an alternative 
-boot loader.</para>
+<para>We have chosen Lilo as a boot loader because we feel comfortable with it, but you 
+may wish to choose another. Someone has written a hint on 
+GRUB at <ulink url="&hints-root;grub-howto.txt"/>.</para>
 
 <para>Install Lilo by running the following commands:</para>
 
@@ -12,17 +11,17 @@ boot loader.</para>
 make install</userinput></screen></para>
 
 <para>It appears that compilation of this package fails on certain machines
-when the -g compiler flag is being used. If you can't compile Lilo at
+when the -g compiler flag is used. If you can't compile Lilo at
 all, you should try to remove the -g value from the CFLAGS variable in the
 <filename>Makefile</filename> file.</para>
 
 <para>At the end of the installation the make install process will print a
 message stating that /sbin/lilo has to be executed to complete the
-update. Don't do this as it has no use. The /etc/lilo.conf isn't present
+update. Don't do this, as it has no use: the /etc/lilo.conf isn't present
 yet. We will complete the installation of lilo in chapter 8.</para>
 
 <para>Maybe you'll be interested to know that someone wrote a hint on 
-how to get a logo instead the the standard LILO prompt or menu. Take 
+how to get a logo instead of the standard LILO prompt or menu. Take 
 a look at it at <ulink url="&hints-root;bootlogo.txt"/>.</para>
 
 </sect2>

preface/foreword.xml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <?dbhtml filename="foreword.html" dir="preface"?>
 
 <para>Having used a number of different Linux distributions, I was never
-fully satisfied with any of them. I didn't like the way the arrangement of
+fully satisfied with any of them. I didn't like the arrangement of
 the bootscripts. I didn't like the way certain programs were configured by
 default. Much more of that sort of thing bothered me. Finally I realized
 that if I wanted full satisfisfaction from my Linux system I would have to
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ dependencies and compile-time errors, a custom-built Linux system was
 created that was fully operational. I called this system a Linux From Scratch
 system, or LFS for short.</para>
 
-<para>I hope all of you will have a great time working on LFS!</para>
+<para>I hope you will have a great time working on your own LFS!</para>
 
 <literallayout>
 --