tree-wide: fixes for assorted grammar and spelling issues

Fixes #16363. Also includes some changes where I generalized the pattern.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/man/sysctl.d.xml b/man/sysctl.d.xml
index d26f82475b..70504510f9 100644
--- a/man/sysctl.d.xml
+++ b/man/sysctl.d.xml
@@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ key.pattern.overridden.with.glob = custom
     followed by <literal>=</literal>, see SYNOPSIS.</para>
 
     <para>Any access permission errors and attempts to write variables not present on the local system are
-    logged, but do not cause the service to fail. Debug log level is used, which means that the message will
-    not show up at all by default. Moreover, if a variable assignment is prefixed with a single
-    <literal>-</literal> character, any failure to set the variable will be logged at debug level, but will
-    not cause the service to fail. All other errors when setting variables are logged with higher priority
-    and cause the service to return failure at the end (other variables are still processed).</para>
+    logged at debug level and do not cause the service to fail. Moreover, if a variable assignment is
+    prefixed with a single <literal>-</literal> character, failure to set the variable for other reasons will
+    be logged at debug level and will not cause the service to fail. In other cases, errors when setting
+    variables are logged with higher priority and cause the service to return failure at the end (after
+    processing other variables).</para>
 
     <para>The settings configured with <filename>sysctl.d</filename> files will be applied early on boot. The
     network interface-specific options will also be applied individually for each network interface as it