Some additional description based on a patch from Terje Kvernes

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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