message string changes, mostly for consistency, also -32 bytes in .rodata

4 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/miscutils/crond.c b/miscutils/crond.c
index eaed1ea69..4fc940b79 100644
--- a/miscutils/crond.c
+++ b/miscutils/crond.c
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ static void startlogger(void)
                 if ((logfd = open(LogFile, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_APPEND, 0600)) >= 0) {
                         close(logfd);
                 } else {
-                        bb_perror_msg("Failed to open log file '%s' reason", LogFile);
+                        bb_perror_msg("failed to open log file '%s': ", LogFile);
                 }
         }
 #endif
@@ -883,7 +883,7 @@ ForkJob(const char *user, CronLine * line, int mailFd,
                 exit(0);
         } else if (pid < 0) {
                 /* FORK FAILED */
-                crondlog("\024couldn't fork, user %s\n", user);
+                crondlog("\024cannot fork, user %s\n", user);
                 line->cl_Pid = 0;
                 if (mailf) {
                         remove(mailf);
@@ -1008,7 +1008,7 @@ static void RunJob(const char *user, CronLine * line)
                 exit(0);
         } else if (pid < 0) {
                 /* FORK FAILED */
-                crondlog("\024couldn't fork, user %s\n", user);
+                crondlog("\024cannot, user %s\n", user);
                 pid = 0;
         }
         line->cl_Pid = pid;
diff --git a/miscutils/hdparm.c b/miscutils/hdparm.c
index 1c9a99e13..a30f4e0d7 100644
--- a/miscutils/hdparm.c
+++ b/miscutils/hdparm.c
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ static void identify(uint16_t *id_supplied)
         }
         else
                 /*"Unknown device type:\n\tbits 15&14 of general configuration word 0 both set to 1.\n"*/
-                bb_error_msg_and_die("Unknown device type");
+                bb_error_msg_and_die("unknown device type");
 
         printf("%sremovable media\n", !(val[GEN_CONFIG] & MEDIA_REMOVABLE) ? "non-" : "");
         /* Info from the specific configuration word says whether or not the
diff --git a/miscutils/less.c b/miscutils/less.c
index 63389dcd7..11f1d8baa 100644
--- a/miscutils/less.c
+++ b/miscutils/less.c
@@ -1113,7 +1113,7 @@ int less_main(int argc, char **argv) {
                 if (ttyname(STDIN_FILENO) == NULL)
                         inp_stdin = 1;
                 else {
-                        bb_error_msg("Missing filename");
+                        bb_error_msg("missing filename");
                         bb_show_usage();
                 }
         }
diff --git a/miscutils/makedevs.c b/miscutils/makedevs.c
index 6ff5cc223..3bc1559c7 100644
--- a/miscutils/makedevs.c
+++ b/miscutils/makedevs.c
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ int makedevs_main(int argc, char **argv)
         /* if mode != S_IFCHR and != S_IFBLK third param in mknod() ignored */
 
                 if (mknod(nodname, mode, makedev(Smajor, Sminor)))
-                        bb_error_msg("Failed to create: %s", nodname);
+                        bb_error_msg("failed to create: %s", nodname);
 
                 if (nodname == basedev) /* ex. /dev/hda - to /dev/hda1 ... */
                         nodname = buf;