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Date:      Fri,  9 Oct 2009 11:54:14 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   docs/139447: [patch] ntpd(8) man page missing a space
Message-ID:  <20091009095414.6F55916A0@megatron.madpilot.net>
Resent-Message-ID: <200910091000.n99A0DU2024043@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         139447
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [patch] ntpd(8) man page missing a space
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Oct 09 10:00:13 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Guido Falsi
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 amd64
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD megatron.madpilot.net 8.0-RC1 FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 #3: Sun Oct 4 12:15:50 CEST 2009 root@megatron.madpilot.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MEGATRON amd64

>Description:

While reading the ntpd man page I noticed a missing space in the
description of option "-g".

I saw this on 7.2-STABLE, but the problem is there in RELENG_8 too,
and I think -current either. Attached patch should work on all of
them.

>How-To-Repeat:

man ntpd

>Fix:

--- ntpd.8.orig	2009-10-09 11:47:03.592099392 +0200
+++ ntpd.8	2009-10-09 11:48:13.918976814 +0200
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
 .Nm
 exits with a message to the system log if the offset exceeds
 the panic threshold, which is 1000 s by default.
-This option allows thetime to be set to any value without restriction;
+This option allows the time to be set to any value without restriction;
 however, this can happen only once.
 If the threshold is exceeded after that,
 .Nm
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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