Description: fix minor spelling errors. Author: Marcos Fouces Bug: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57542 Last-Update: 2025-06-21 --- NEWS | 6 +++--- accounting.info | 4 ++-- accounting.texi | 8 ++++---- al_share.cpp | 2 +- last.c | 2 +- 5 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3dde199..3c429e2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ New in 6.5.3: New in 6.5.1: - * GNUlib for compability, audited code... Reworked. + * GNUlib for compatibility, audited code... Reworked. New in 6.5: @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ New in 6.4: * The acct.h header file is now expected to be at , the older is ignored. As this file is not used at all when Linux multiformat is enabled (which is the default), - noone should notice this change anyways. + no one should notice this change anyways. * A bug with the ctime() function on 64 bit platforms was fixed. @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ New in 6.3.1: * We use `automake' to build the package, so things like ansi2knr should be called automatically for those of you that don't have ANSI C compilers. It also helps write the install targets, etc. - Very cool. I was suprised how easy it was to integrate into this + Very cool. I was surprised how easy it was to integrate into this package. Hats off to David J. MacKenzie and Tom Tromey! diff --git a/accounting.info b/accounting.info index a5f1b09..99ea46f 100644 --- a/accounting.info +++ b/accounting.info @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ translation approved by the Foundation. File: accounting.info, Node: Top, Next: Preface, Prev: (dir), Up: (dir) Welcome to the GNU Accounting Utilities! If you don't have a clue -about the accounting utilities, read the introduction. For specfic +about the accounting utilities, read the introduction. For specific information about any of the applications, see the chapter with the program's name. @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ another. For no fault of `ac''s, if two logins occur at the same time (within a second of each other), each `login' process will try to write an entry -to the `wtmp' file. With file system overhead, it is forseeable that +to the `wtmp' file. With file system overhead, it is foreseeable that the entries would get written in the wrong order. GNU `ac' automatically compensates for this, but some other `ac's may not... beware. diff --git a/accounting.texi b/accounting.texi index 58c7126..cc8e845 100644 --- a/accounting.texi +++ b/accounting.texi @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ approved by the Foundation. @node Top, Preface, (dir), (dir) Welcome to the GNU Accounting Utilities! If you don't have a clue about -the accounting utilities, read the introduction. For specfic +the accounting utilities, read the introduction. For specific information about any of the applications, see the chapter with the program's name. @@ -120,12 +120,12 @@ users and charge them through the nose for their CPU time...'' The accounting utilities were born. -Seriously though, the accouting utilities can provide a system +Seriously though, the accounting utilities can provide a system administrator with useful information about system usage---connections, programs executed, and utilization of system resources. Information about users---their connect time, location, programs -executed, and the like---is automatically recored in files by +executed, and the like---is automatically recorded in files by @code{init} and @code{login}. Four of them are of interest to us: @code{wtmp}, which has records for each login and logout; @code{acct}, which records each command that was run; @@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ standard output. For no fault of @code{ac}'s, if two logins occur at the same time (within a second of each other), each @code{login} process will try to write an entry to the @code{wtmp} file. With file system -overhead, it is forseeable that the entries would get written in the +overhead, it is foreseeable that the entries would get written in the wrong order. GNU @code{ac} automatically compensates for this, but some other @code{ac}s may not... beware. diff --git a/al_share.cpp b/al_share.cpp index 6f5a58f..96ec726 100644 --- a/al_share.cpp +++ b/al_share.cpp @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ /* This is the loop that handles the parsing of entries. Since it's virtually identical for ac & last, I figured it was better to have - only one copy of it to reduce the possiblity of errors. */ + only one copy of it to reduce the possibility of errors. */ void parse_entries(void) { diff --git a/last.c b/last.c index bf17b26..8dd1daa 100644 --- a/last.c +++ b/last.c @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) hashtab_create (names, argv[optind], 0); - /* add the name as "tty" for u*x compatibilty */ + /* add the name as "tty" for u*x compatibility */ string = (char *) xmalloc ((strlen (argv[optind]) + 4) * sizeof (char));