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-rw-r--r--miscutils/Config.in10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/miscutils/Config.in b/miscutils/Config.in
index fbdcbcc7b..b4a3475de 100644
--- a/miscutils/Config.in
+++ b/miscutils/Config.in
@@ -38,8 +38,10 @@ config CONFIG_DUTMP
default n
help
'dutmp' is a utility used by the Linux Router Project (as far as I
- know nobody else uses it). It dumps the contents of the utmp file in
- a format that can be parsed by shell scripts.
+ know nobody else uses it). It dumps the contents of the utmp file to
+ STDOUT with each field seperated by a colon. IP addresses are are
+ given in hex in native byte order. It is intended that this format
+ can then be parsed by shell scripts.
config CONFIG_HDPARM
bool "hdparm"
@@ -131,8 +133,8 @@ config CONFIG_WATCHDOG
device drivers. It opens the specified watchdog device special file
and periodically writes a magic character to the device. If the
watchdog applet ever fails to write the magic character within a
- certain amount of time, the watchdog device assumes that means the
- system has hung, and it will therefore cause the hardware to reboot.
+ certain amount of time, the watchdog device assumes the system has
+ hung, and will cause the hardware to reboot.
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