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diff --git a/gnu/packages/admin.scm b/gnu/packages/admin.scm index a5b84af61a..37841efd12 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/admin.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/admin.scm @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ ONC RPC numbers") "Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable \"back-end\" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other -programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging +programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.") (license gpl2+))) @@ -816,7 +816,7 @@ module slots, and the list of I/O ports (e.g. serial, parallel, USB).") #:tests? #f ; no 'check' target. #:phases (alist-delete 'configure %standard-phases))) (home-page "http://acpica.org/") - (synopsis "ACPICA tools for the development and debug of ACPI tables") + (synopsis "Tools for the development and debug of ACPI tables") (description "The ACPI Component Architecture (ACPICA) project provides an OS-independent reference implementation of the Advanced Configuration and @@ -842,11 +842,11 @@ development, not the kernel implementation of ACPI.") (home-page "http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/stress") (synopsis "Impose load on and stress test a computer system") (description - "'stress' is a tool that imposes a configurable amount of CPU, memory, I/O, + "Stress is a tool that imposes a configurable amount of CPU, memory, I/O, or disk stress on a POSIX-compliant operating system and reports any errors it detects. -'stress' is not a benchmark. It is a tool used by system administrators to +Stress is not a benchmark. It is a tool used by system administrators to evaluate how well their systems will scale, by kernel programmers to evaluate perceived performance characteristics, and by systems programmers to expose the classes of bugs which only or more frequently manifest themselves when the @@ -940,7 +940,7 @@ recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again.") (synopsis "Daemon to monitor directories for events such as file removal") (description "A daemon that monitors directories for events, such as creating, -deleting or modifying files. It can monitor different sets of directories for +deleting or modifying files. It can monitor different sets of directories for different events. When an event is detected, direvent calls a specified external program with information about the event, such as the location within the file system where it occurred. Thus, \"direvent\" provides an |