27 files changed, 71 insertions, 71 deletions

diff --git a/usr.sbin/ac/ac.8 b/usr.sbin/ac/ac.8
index 42b88cf69a049..38ae46bee3566 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/ac/ac.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/ac/ac.8
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
 .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"	$Id: ac.8,v 1.3 1995/10/07 12:02:33 joerg Exp $
+.\"	$Id: ac.8,v 1.4 1996/01/20 07:28:13 mpp Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd March 15, 1994
 .Dt AC 8
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ rotated files
 .\" of a user being logged in when the 
 .\" .Pa wtmp
 .\" file was rotated, in which case a login with ut_host of ":0.0" may
-.\" appear without any preceeding console logins.  
+.\" appear without any preceding console logins.  
 .\" If no one is logged in on the console, the user is deemed to have
 .\" logged in on at the earliest time stamp found in
 .\" .Pa wtmp .
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ rotated files
 .\" .Pa console
 .\" allows
 .\" .Nm ac
-.\" to identify and correcty process a logout for the user.  The default
+.\" to identify and correctly process a logout for the user.  The default
 .\" value for
 .\" .Pa console
 .\" is usually correct at compile time.
diff --git a/usr.sbin/adduser/adduser.8 b/usr.sbin/adduser/adduser.8
index a393f6f9e18d3..a7959cf38462d 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/adduser/adduser.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/adduser/adduser.8
@@ -28,10 +28,10 @@
 .\"
 .\" /usr/sbin/adduser - add new user(s)
 .\"
-.\" Bugs: sure (my english!)
+.\" Bugs: sure (my English!)
 .\"   Email: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
 .\"
-.\" $Id: adduser.8,v 1.5 1995/03/07 16:42:33 w Exp w $
+.\" $Id: adduser.8,v 1.7 1995/03/08 22:44:35 ache Exp $
 .\"
 
 .Dd Jan, 9, 1995
@@ -67,9 +67,9 @@ not allowed.
 .It Sy shell
 Only valid shells from shell database or sliplogin and pppd
 .It Sy uid
-Automatic generated or your choise. Less than 32000.
+Automatically generated or your choice. Less than 32000.
 .It Sy gid/login group
-Your choise or automatic generated. 
+Your choice or automatically generated. 
 .It Sy password
 If not empty password is encoded with crypt.
 .El
@@ -80,11 +80,11 @@ with most other schemes.  With each user in his/her own group the user can
 safely run with a umask of 002 and have files created in there home directory
 and not worry about others being able to read them.
 
-For a shared area you create a seperate uid/gid (like cvs or ncvs on freefall),
+For a shared area you create a separate uid/gid (like cvs or ncvs on freefall),
 you place each person that should be able to access this area into that new
 group.
 
-This model of uid/gid administration allows far greater flexibilty that lumping
+This model of uid/gid administration allows far greater flexibility that lumping
 users into groups and having to muck with the umask when working in a shared
 area.
 
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ Do not read config file.
 Default shell for new users.
 
 .It Sy -silent,-s,-quit,-q
-Few warnings, question, bugreports. 
+Few warnings, question, bug reports. 
 
 .It Sy -uid Ar uid
 Use uid's from 
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ Use uid's from
 up.
 
 .It Sy -verbose,-v
-Many warning, question. Recommended for noivice users.
+Many warning, question. Recommended for novice users.
 
 
 
diff --git a/usr.sbin/cdcontrol/cdcontrol.1 b/usr.sbin/cdcontrol/cdcontrol.1
index 095c170c756e1..8c62d65b33702 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/cdcontrol/cdcontrol.1
+++ b/usr.sbin/cdcontrol/cdcontrol.1
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ in minutes,
 .Nm start_s,
 in seconds and 
 .Nm start_f
-(frame number) to the abolute address defined by
+(frame number) to the absolute address defined by
 .Nm end_m
 in minutes, 
 .Nm end_s,
diff --git a/usr.sbin/cdplay/cdplay.1 b/usr.sbin/cdplay/cdplay.1
index 2500c16e63bd8..724a89871a354 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/cdplay/cdplay.1
+++ b/usr.sbin/cdplay/cdplay.1
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ in minutes,
 .Nm start_s,
 in seconds and 
 .Nm start_f
-(frame number) to the abolute address defined by
+(frame number) to the absolute address defined by
 .Nm end_m
 in minutes, 
 .Nm end_s,
diff --git a/usr.sbin/fdcontrol/fdcontrol.8 b/usr.sbin/fdcontrol/fdcontrol.8
index 7a4b11e707fbb..1f1d410e83e3f 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/fdcontrol/fdcontrol.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/fdcontrol/fdcontrol.8
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@
 .Ar device
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
 .Nm Fdcontrol
-allows the modification of the run-time behaviour of the floppy
-disk device specifed by
+allows the modification of the run-time behavior of the floppy
+disk device specified by
 .Ar device .
 .Ar Device
 should be a character device.
diff --git a/usr.sbin/fdformat/fdformat.1 b/usr.sbin/fdformat/fdformat.1
index 9bba2a0606f13..826bf5614be03 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/fdformat/fdformat.1
+++ b/usr.sbin/fdformat/fdformat.1
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ are meaningless, since they're overridden by
 The options are as follows:
 .Bl -tag -width 10n -offset indent
 .It Fl q
-supress any normal output from the command, and don't ask the
+suppress any normal output from the command, and don't ask the
 user for a confirmation whether to format the floppy disk at
 .Ar device_name .
 .It Fl f Ar capacity
diff --git a/usr.sbin/fdwrite/fdwrite.1 b/usr.sbin/fdwrite/fdwrite.1
index a8f527f721434..f41c117f8da74 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/fdwrite/fdwrite.1
+++ b/usr.sbin/fdwrite/fdwrite.1
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 .\" this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return.   Poul-Henning Kamp
 .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 .\"
-.\" $Id$
+.\" $Id: fdwrite.1,v 1.1.1.1 1994/09/18 07:39:19 phk Exp $
 .\"
 .\"
 .Dd September 16, 1993
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Any floppy disk device capable of formatting can be used.
 will ask the user
 .Pq on /dev/tty
 to insert a new floppy and press return.
-The device will then be opened, and queried for it's paramters,
+The device will then be opened, and queried for it's parameters,
 then each track will be formatted, written with data from the
 .Ar inputfile ,
 read back and compared.
diff --git a/usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.8 b/usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.8
index 5632c5c2109b9..6f6e4a3953907 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/inetd/inetd.8
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
 .\"     from: @(#)inetd.8	8.3 (Berkeley) 4/13/94
-.\"	$Id: inetd.8,v 1.5 1995/10/09 23:34:07 davidg Exp $
+.\"	$Id: inetd.8,v 1.6 1995/10/12 16:43:25 wollman Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd April 13, 1994
 .Dt INETD 8
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ command appeared in
 TCPMUX is based on code and documentation by Mark Lottor.
 Support for
 .Tn "ONC RPC"
-based services is modelled after that
+based services is modeled after that
 provided by
 .Tn SunOS
 4.1.
diff --git a/usr.sbin/kbdmap/kbdmap.1 b/usr.sbin/kbdmap/kbdmap.1
index 9ef452d84262b..1102b74f1206c 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/kbdmap/kbdmap.1
+++ b/usr.sbin/kbdmap/kbdmap.1
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"   E-Mail: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
 .\"
-.\" $Id: kbdmap.1,v 1.5 1995/04/01 17:07:26 w Exp $
+.\" $Id: kbdmap.1,v 1.1 1995/04/05 08:09:22 jkh Exp $
 .\"
 
 .Dd Mar 25, 1995
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 
 .Sh DESCRIPTION 
 .Nm kbdmap
-allow easy setting of avaible keymaps. 
+allow easy setting of available keymaps. 
 .Nm vidfont 
 do it for fonts. 
 Both looking in a database for a description. Description is
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ Load default font from /etc/sysconfig
 .It Fl v , Fl verbose
 More warnings.
 
-.Sh ENVIROMENT
+.Sh ENVIRONMENT
 .Bl -tag -width /etc/master.passwdxx -compact
 .Pa LANG	
 Prefered language.
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Describe common LANG values.
 .Sh BUGS
 .\" .Nm kbdmap/vidfont
 .\" does not know which font is in use. E.g. if the current font 
-.\" is iso-8859-1 and you choise lang 'ru' (for russian) 
+.\" is iso-8859-1 and you chose lang 'ru' (for Russian) 
 .\" you get funny latin1 characters and not russkij shrift.
 .\" 
 .Nm vidcontrol
diff --git a/usr.sbin/lsdev/lsdev.8 b/usr.sbin/lsdev/lsdev.8
index 43e78d61fb273..fb54517469d70 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/lsdev/lsdev.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/lsdev/lsdev.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: lsdev.8,v 1.2 1994/10/23 21:33:55 wollman Exp $
+.\" $Id: lsdev.8,v 1.3 1994/12/12 00:35:01 ats Exp $
 .\" Garrett A. Wollman, October 1994
 .\" This file is in the public domain.
 .\"
@@ -56,10 +56,10 @@ supported device type names
 .\" .Xr chdev 8
 .Xr sysctl 3
 .Sh BUGS
-Not all devices have the proper support implmented yet.
+Not all devices have the proper support implemented yet.
 .Sh HISTORY
 An
 .Nm
-comand appeared in
+command appeared in
 .Tn FreeBSD
 2.0.
diff --git a/usr.sbin/manctl/manctl.8 b/usr.sbin/manctl/manctl.8
index 81ad47d0b2d72..68447aae07f6e 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/manctl/manctl.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/manctl/manctl.8
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" (c) Wolfram Schneider, Berlin, Germany. Public domain.
 .\"
-.\" $Id: manctl.8,v 1.1 1996/01/23 20:51:29 wosch Exp $
+.\" $Id: manctl.8,v 1.1 1996/01/23 23:59:35 wosch Exp $
 
 .Dd Jan 1996
 .Dt manctl 8
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ If possible, .so's are replaced with hard links.
 .It Fl help
 Print options and exit.
 .It Fl compress
-Compress uncompressed man pages (elliminating .so's)
+Compress uncompressed man pages (eliminating .so's)
 .It Fl uncompress
 Uncompress compressed man pages.
 .It Fl purge
diff --git a/usr.sbin/mtree/mtree.8 b/usr.sbin/mtree/mtree.8
index 2fd7d21cc1e8b..665cc90b98b4c 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/mtree/mtree.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/mtree/mtree.8
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
 .\"     From: @(#)mtree.8	8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
-.\"	$Id$
+.\"	$Id: mtree.8,v 1.5 1995/02/10 03:12:30 wollman Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd February 9, 1995
 .Dt MTREE 8
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ and
 options can be used in combination to create directory hierarchies
 for distributions and other such things; the files in
 .Pa /etc/mtree
-were used to create almost all diectories in this
+were used to create almost all directories in this
 .Tn FreeBSD
 distribution.
 .Sh FILES
diff --git a/usr.sbin/ncrcontrol/ncrcontrol.8 b/usr.sbin/ncrcontrol/ncrcontrol.8
index 9b9a01a7b9b37..7648b224ca344 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/ncrcontrol/ncrcontrol.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/ncrcontrol/ncrcontrol.8
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
 .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"     $Id: ncrcontrol.8,v 1.1 1994/10/13 17:43:51 se Exp $
+.\"     $Id: ncrcontrol.8,v 1.2 1994/12/02 06:19:37 nate Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd September 16, 1994
 .Dt NCRCONTROL 8
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ interval argument, it displays a running count of statistics related to
 the transfers on the selected scsi bus.
 
 This display consists of the number of transfers and number of transferred
-byted for the controller and for each connected target.
+bytes for the controller and for each connected target.
 
 (NOT YET COMPLETE)
 
diff --git a/usr.sbin/pkg_manage/pkg_manage.1 b/usr.sbin/pkg_manage/pkg_manage.1
index 8a148455aeee7..8fb4eb2bd4033 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/pkg_manage/pkg_manage.1
+++ b/usr.sbin/pkg_manage/pkg_manage.1
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 .TP
 .B pkg_manage
 .SH DESCRIPTION
-Pkg_manage is an interactive tool with wich you can install, 
+Pkg_manage is an interactive tool with which you can install, 
 delete and view packages. It is a 
 front-end to the pkg_add(1), pkg_info(1) and pkg_delete(1) programs.
 
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ to continue,
 .B <Cancel>
 to back out.
 Once a directory has been chosen, it will be scanned for packages files,
-tpically files ending in '.tgz'. These will be listed in
+typically files ending in '.tgz'. These will be listed in
 a listbox (the one on the left) as well as the already installed 
 packages, that will be listed in a similar box (on the right side).
 Use TAB or SHIFT-TAB to move from field to field. 
diff --git a/usr.sbin/ppp/ppp.8 b/usr.sbin/ppp/ppp.8
index 9a49587284e02..a4f3b00c7b67a 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/ppp/ppp.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/ppp/ppp.8
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" manual page [] for ppp 0.94 beta2 + alpha
-.\" $Id: ppp.8,v 1.11 1995/09/24 18:15:14 nate Exp $
+.\" $Id: ppp.8,v 1.12 1995/10/08 14:57:31 amurai Exp $
 .Dd 20 September 1995
 .Os FreeBSD
 .Dt PPP 8
@@ -321,9 +321,9 @@ When an outgoing packet is detected,
 will perform the dialing action (chat script) and try to connect
 with the peer.
 
-If the connect fails, the default behaviour is to wait 30 seconds
+If the connect fails, the default behavior is to wait 30 seconds
 and then attempt to connect when another outgoing packet is detected.
-This behaviour can be changed with
+This behavior can be changed with
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 set redial seconds|random [dial_attempts]
 .Ed
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ will always try to consult the user's personal setup first.
 
 .Bl -tag -width flag
 .It $HOME/ppp/.ppp.[conf|linkup|secret]
-User dependant configuration files.
+User dependent configuration files.
 
 .It /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
 System default configuration file.
diff --git a/usr.sbin/ppp/ppp.8.m4 b/usr.sbin/ppp/ppp.8.m4
index 9a49587284e02..a4f3b00c7b67a 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/ppp/ppp.8.m4
+++ b/usr.sbin/ppp/ppp.8.m4
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\" manual page [] for ppp 0.94 beta2 + alpha
-.\" $Id: ppp.8,v 1.11 1995/09/24 18:15:14 nate Exp $
+.\" $Id: ppp.8,v 1.12 1995/10/08 14:57:31 amurai Exp $
 .Dd 20 September 1995
 .Os FreeBSD
 .Dt PPP 8
@@ -321,9 +321,9 @@ When an outgoing packet is detected,
 will perform the dialing action (chat script) and try to connect
 with the peer.
 
-If the connect fails, the default behaviour is to wait 30 seconds
+If the connect fails, the default behavior is to wait 30 seconds
 and then attempt to connect when another outgoing packet is detected.
-This behaviour can be changed with
+This behavior can be changed with
 .Bd -literal -offset indent
 set redial seconds|random [dial_attempts]
 .Ed
@@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ will always try to consult the user's personal setup first.
 
 .Bl -tag -width flag
 .It $HOME/ppp/.ppp.[conf|linkup|secret]
-User dependant configuration files.
+User dependent configuration files.
 
 .It /etc/ppp/ppp.conf
 System default configuration file.
diff --git a/usr.sbin/quot/quot.8 b/usr.sbin/quot/quot.8
index 76236a0b151c3..9ad482243db30 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/quot/quot.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/quot/quot.8
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
 .\" ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"	$Id: quot.8,v 1.1.1.2 1995/11/03 15:06:02 peter Exp $
+.\"	$Id: quot.8,v 1.2 1995/11/03 15:21:02 peter Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd February 8, 1994
 .Dt QUOT 8
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ blocks in files with this or lower size.
 For each user, display count of files and space occupied.
 .It Fl h
 Estimate the number of blocks in each file based on its size.
-Despite that this doesn't give the correct resuls (it doesn't
+Despite that this doesn't give the correct results (it doesn't
 account for the holes in files), this option isn't any faster
 and thus is discouraged.
 .It Fl k
diff --git a/usr.sbin/rarpd/rarpd.8 b/usr.sbin/rarpd/rarpd.8
index 73cd0100d736c..9db18c460deeb 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/rarpd/rarpd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/rarpd/rarpd.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" @(#) $Header: /a/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/rarpd/rarpd.8,v 1.1.1.1 1995/03/02 06:41:40 wpaul Exp $ (LBL)
+.\" @(#) $Header: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/rarpd/rarpd.8,v 1.2 1995/03/05 22:04:05 wpaul Exp $ (LBL)
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1988-1990 The Regents of the University of California.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ must be present in both the
 and 
 .I hosts(5)
 databases.
-If a host does not exist in both databses, the translation cannot
+If a host does not exist in both databases, the translation cannot
 proceed and a reply will not be sent.
 
 Additionally, a request is honored only if the server
diff --git a/usr.sbin/rtprio/rtprio.1 b/usr.sbin/rtprio/rtprio.1
index 5542f12e3c7ba..cf6be4a9602ea 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/rtprio/rtprio.1
+++ b/usr.sbin/rtprio/rtprio.1
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"	$Id: rtprio.1,v 1.1 1994/09/01 12:05:13 davidg Exp $
+.\"	$Id: rtprio.1,v 1.3 1994/10/02 04:48:19 davidg Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd July 23, 1994
 .Dt RTPRIO 1
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ the process may be stopped for pagein. (See mprotect(2), madvise(2)).
 Under
 FreeBSD
 system calls are currently never preempted, therefore non-realtime
-processes can starve realtime procesess, or idletime processes can
+processes can starve realtime processes, or idletime processes can
 starve normal priority processes.
 
 Others ...
diff --git a/usr.sbin/sicontrol/sicontrol.8 b/usr.sbin/sicontrol/sicontrol.8
index ce25794a004b0..bf03d10c27a7e 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/sicontrol/sicontrol.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/sicontrol/sicontrol.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id$
+.\" $Id: sicontrol.8,v 1.2 1995/09/26 18:18:49 peter Exp $
 .\" The following requests are required for all man pages.
 .Dd September 26,1995
 .Dt SICONTROL 8
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ The default value of 4 at boot time allows an interrupt rate of
 approximately 25.
 .Pp
 Lowering this value will increase the rate in which the host adapter can
-interrupt the operating system to empty the receviver fifos.
+interrupt the operating system to empty the receiver fifos.
 .\"
 .It Cm nport
 Returns the number of ports under the control of the device driver.
diff --git a/usr.sbin/sliplogin/sliplogin.8 b/usr.sbin/sliplogin/sliplogin.8
index b0b6825469eec..23680afc6b2e9 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/sliplogin/sliplogin.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/sliplogin/sliplogin.8
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ for two interfaces with same number.
 By default sliplogin dynamically assigns the unit number.
 .El
 .Pp
-If latter two parameters are ommitted, they will not affect the
+If latter two parameters are omitted, they will not affect the
 corresponding SLIP configuration.
 If any of first two parameters is equal to zero, it will not affect
 the corresponding SLIP configuration.
diff --git a/usr.sbin/slstat/slstat.8 b/usr.sbin/slstat/slstat.8
index 811ade9b665ce..f8fc2b3d22e90 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/slstat/slstat.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/slstat/slstat.8
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ is specified, the default is 5 seconds.
 Verbose display of extra fields of information.
 .TP
 \-r
-Display all values in rate per second that ammount per interval.
+Display all values in rate per second that amount per interval.
 .TP
 unit
 is a single digit specifying the slip interface. The default unit is
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ search
 searches for connection state
 .TP
 miss
-times we could not find a connectoin state
+times we could not find a connection state
 .TP
 coll
 collisions with end of clists.
diff --git a/usr.sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8 b/usr.sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8
index c09b418fc89ad..503ff29500cfb 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/sysctl/sysctl.8
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
 .\"	From: @(#)sysctl.8	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
-.\"	$Id: sysctl.8,v 1.6 1995/02/20 19:42:42 guido Exp $
+.\"	$Id: sysctl.8,v 1.7 1995/12/21 12:39:24 phk Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd September 23, 1994
 .Dt SYSCTL 8
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ purpose programs such as
 and
 .Nm netstat .
 .Pp
-The string and integer information is summaried below.
+The string and integer information is summarized below.
 For a detailed description of these variable see
 .Xr sysctl 3 .
 .Pp
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ definitions for fourth level UDP identifiers
 .Sh BUGS
 .Nm sysctl
 presently exploits an undocumented interface to the kernel
-sysctl facility to traverse the sysctl tree and to retrive format 
+sysctl facility to traverse the sysctl tree and to retrieve format 
 and name information. 
 This correct interface is being thought about for the time being.
 .Sh HISTORY
diff --git a/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.1 b/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.1
index 8c3e37100e570..2a3ff09b4b2b1 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.1
+++ b/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.1
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Set border color to
 (only supported on VGA hardware):
 .TP
 .BI "\-c\ " normal | blink | destructive
-Change the cursor apperance. The cursor is either an inverting block 
+Change the cursor appearance. The cursor is either an inverting block 
 (normal) that eventually can "blink". Or it can be like the old hardware cursor
 (destructive). The latter is actually a simulation.
 .TP
diff --git a/usr.sbin/watch/watch.8 b/usr.sbin/watch/watch.8
index 57d144985180d..d0b2a3f0392bd 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/watch/watch.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/watch/watch.8
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 .Sh NAME
 .Nm watch
 .Nd snoop on another tty line
-.Sh SYNOPSYS
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
 .Nm watch
 .Op Fl ciotW
 .Ar tty
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ If output is redirected to a file, interactive mode can still be requested
 by specifying this option.
 .It Fl o
 Reconnect on overflow.
-The behaviour of
+The behavior of
 .Nm watch
 if the observed tty overflows is similar to the behavior if the observed tty
 is closed.
diff --git a/usr.sbin/yppush/yppush.8 b/usr.sbin/yppush/yppush.8
index 6c2563bed0cc9..a4ef6c8a53bf0 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/yppush/yppush.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/yppush/yppush.8
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"	$Id: yppush.8,v 1.2 1996/01/12 06:21:52 wpaul Exp wpaul $
+.\"	$Id: yppush.8,v 1.1.1.1 1996/01/12 07:03:33 wpaul Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd February 5, 1995
 .Dt YPPUSH 8
@@ -164,9 +164,9 @@ a particular NIS domain.
 .Xr ypxfr 8 ,
 .Xr yp 8
 .Sh BUGS
-The mechanism for transfering NIS maps in NIS v1 is different
+The mechanism for transferring NIS maps in NIS v1 is different
 that that in NIS version 2. This version of
 .Nm yppush
-has support for transfering maps to NIS v2 systems only.
+has support for transferring maps to NIS v2 systems only.
 .Sh AUTHOR
 Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>
diff --git a/usr.sbin/ypserv/ypserv.8 b/usr.sbin/ypserv/ypserv.8
index 7a584b73dd418..828170b3f5440 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/ypserv/ypserv.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/ypserv/ypserv.8
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.\"	$Id: ypserv.8,v 1.4 1995/12/10 04:46:38 wpaul Exp $
+.\"	$Id: ypserv.8,v 1.1.1.1 1995/12/16 20:54:17 wpaul Exp $
 .\"
 .Dd February 4, 1995
 .Dt YPSERV 8
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ using the
 command. The clients must also run
 .Xr ypbind 8
 in order to attach to a particular server, since it is possible to
-have serveral servers within a single NIS domain.
+have several servers within a single NIS domain.
 .Pp
 The databases distributed by
 .Nm ypserv
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ To make up for this, the FreeBSD version of
 handles the
 .Pa master.passwd.byname
 and
-.Pa master.basswd.byuid
+.Pa master.passwd.byuid
 maps in a special way. When the server receives a request to access
 either of these two maps, it will check the TCP port from which the
 request originated and return an error if the port number is greater
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ Any requests made by non-privileged users are therefore rejected.
 .Pp
 Furthermore, the
 .Xr getpwent 3
-routines in FreeBSD's standard C libarary will only attempt to retrieve
+routines in FreeBSD's standard C library will only attempt to retrieve
 data from the
 .Pa master.passwd.byname
 and
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ This will cause the standard
 and
 .Pa passwd.byuid
 maps to be generated with valid encrypted password fields, which is
-neccesary in order for non-FreeBSD clients to perform user
+necessary in order for non-FreeBSD clients to perform user
 authentication through NIS.
 .El
 .Pp
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ you can easily recompile
 with them, thereby enabling its 'securenets' features: you can
 configure
 .Nm ypserv
-to only handle resquests from machines listed
+to only handle requests from machines listed
 in the
 .Pa tcpwrapper
 configuration files, which would help limit vulnerability to the
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ will construct a fake database record and return it to the client,
 thereby making it seem as though the client's yp_match request
 succeeded.
 .Pp
-This feature is provided for compatiblity with SunOS 4.1.x,
+This feature is provided for compatibility with SunOS 4.1.x,
 which has brain-damaged resolver functions in its standard C
 library that depend on NIS for hostname and address resolution.
 FreeBSD's resolver can be configured to do DNS
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ using the
 .Xr syslog 3
 facility. In debug mode, the server does not background
 itself and prints extra status messages to stderr for each
-request that it revceives. Also, while running in debug mode,
+request that it receives. Also, while running in debug mode,
 .Nm ypserv
 will not spawn any additional subprocesses as it normally does
 when handling yp_all requests or doing DNS lookups. (These actions