changeset 857:da601285a86e

Tweak help text.
author Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
date Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:35:25 -0500
parents e93ae8a32a26
children 34ac05521d94
files Config.in
diffstat 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/Config.in	Sun Apr 14 02:58:12 2013 -0500
+++ b/Config.in	Sun Apr 14 12:35:25 2013 -0500
@@ -14,16 +14,19 @@
 	help
 	  usage: toybox [command] [arguments...]
 
-	  With no arguments, shows available commands.  First argument is
+	  With no arguments, shows available commands. First argument is
 	  name of a command to run, followed by any arguments to that command.
 
 config TOYBOX_SUID
 	bool "SUID support"
 	default y
 	help
-	  Support for suid commands, which run as root.  This means toybox must
-	  be installed suid root, and drops permissions before running commands
-	  which do not require root access.
+	  Support for the Set User ID bit, to install toybox suid root and drop
+	  permissions for commands which do not require root access. To use
+	  this change ownership of the file to the root user and set the suid
+	  bit in the file permissions:
+
+	  chown root:root toybox; chmod +s toybox
 
 config TOYBOX_FLOAT
 	bool "Floating point support"
@@ -33,18 +36,18 @@
 	  require it.
 
 config TOYBOX_I18N
-	bool "Internalization support"
+	bool "Internationalization support"
 	default y
 	help
-	  Add support for locales in commands.
+	  Support for UTF-8 character sets, and some locale support.
 
 config TOYBOX_FREE
 	bool "Free memory unnecessarily"
 	default n
 	help
 	  When a program exits, the operating system will clean up after it
-	  (free memory, close files, etc).  To save size, toybox usually relies
-	  on this behavior.  If you're running toybox under a debugger or
+	  (free memory, close files, etc). To save size, toybox usually relies
+	  on this behavior. If you're running toybox under a debugger or
 	  without a real OS (ala newlib+libgloss), enable this to make toybox
 	  clean up after itself.