diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvs-freebsd/article.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvs-freebsd/article.sgml
index 5b5fadb1a0..cdf7a4cd8b 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvs-freebsd/article.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvs-freebsd/article.sgml
@@ -22,8 +22,6 @@
       <holder role="mailto:stijn@win.tue.nl">Stijn Hoop</holder>
     </copyright>
 
-    <pubdate role="rcs">$Date: 2002-04-10 12:54:25 $</pubdate>
-
     <releaseinfo>$FreeBSD$</releaseinfo>
 
     <abstract>
@@ -183,7 +181,7 @@
         <listitem>
           <para><filename>checkoutlist</filename> - this files lists all
             files under control of <application>CVS</application> in this
-            directory. You should edit this to remove some FreeBSD specific
+            directory, apart from the standard ones created by <literal>cvs init</literal>. You should edit this to remove some FreeBSD-specific
             files.</para>
         </listitem>
 
@@ -197,7 +195,7 @@
         <listitem>
           <para><filename>commitcheck</filename> - this script is invoked
             directly from <application>CVS</application>. It first checks if
-            the committer has access to the specified part of the tree, and
+            the committer has access to the specified part of the tree using <filename>cvs_acls.pl</filename>, and
             then runs <filename>commit_prep.pl</filename> for the various
             pre-commit checks. If those are OK, <application>CVS</application>
             will allow the commit to proceed. You should not have to touch
@@ -207,7 +205,8 @@
         <listitem>
           <para><filename>commitinfo</filename> - this file is used by
             <application>CVS</application> to determine which script to run
-            before a commit. You should not have to touch this file.</para>
+            before a commit&mdash;in this case <filename>commitcheck</filename>.
+            You should not have to touch this file.</para>
         </listitem>
 
         <listitem>
@@ -238,26 +237,32 @@
             <application>CVS</application> to enable or disable keyword
             expansion, or whether a file should be considered binary. You
             can edit this as you wish. More information about this file
-            is available in the <application>CVS</application> manual.</para>
+            is available in the <application>CVS</application> manual.
+            Note that the <literal>-t</literal> and <literal>-f</literal>
+            options don't work correctly with client/server
+            <application>CVS</application>.</para>
         </listitem>
 
         <listitem>
           <para><filename>edithook</filename> - this file is not used
-            any more, but kept for historic reasons. You should not have to
-            touch this file.</para>
+            any more, but kept for historic reasons. You can safely
+            remove this file.</para>
         </listitem>
 
         <listitem>
           <para><filename>editinfo</filename> - <application>CVS</application>
             uses this file for editor overrides. FreeBSD does not use this
-            functionality, as parsing the log message is done in the
-            <filename>verifymsg</filename> and <filename>logcheck</filename>
-            files. You should not have to touch this file.</para>
+            functionality, as parsing the log message is done by
+            <filename>verifymsg</filename> and <filename>logcheck</filename>.
+            This is because the <filename>editinfo</filename>
+            functionality doesn't work properly with remote commits, or ones
+            that use the <literal>-m</literal> or <literal>-F</literal>
+            options. You should not have to touch this file.</para>
         </listitem>
 
         <listitem>
           <para><filename>exclude</filename> - this file lists regular
-            expressions that are used to determine files which cannot contain a
+            expressions that are used by <filename>commit_prep.pl</filename> to determine files which cannot contain a
             revision header. In the FreeBSD setup, all files under revision
             control need to have a revision header (like
             &dollar;FreeBSD&dollar;). All filenames that match one of the lines
@@ -274,26 +279,36 @@
             <filename>logcheck</filename> script, and appends it to a log file
             in the repository for backup purposes. It also handles mailing out a
             message to an email address you provide (in
-            <filename>cfg_local.pm</filename>). You should not have to touch
+            <filename>cfg_local.pm</filename>). It hooks into
+            <application>CVS</application> via
+            <filename>loginfo</filename>. You should not have to touch
             this file.</para>
         </listitem>
 
         <listitem>
           <para><filename>logcheck</filename> - this file parses the commit
             log message that committers provide, and attempts to sanitize it
-            somewhat.</para>
+            somewhat. It hooks into <application>CVS</application> via
+            <filename>verifymsg</filename>. You should not have to touch
+            this file.</para>
 
           <note><para>This script depends on a local FreeBSD hack of
             <application>CVS</application>: this version reads the log message
             back in after this script has modified it. The stock version of
-            <application>CVS</application> apparently does not, which would
-            make this script useless.</para></note>
+            <application>CVS</application> does not do this which makes
+            <filename>logcheck</filename> unable to clean up the log message,
+            although it is still able to check that it is syntactically
+            OK. <application>CVS</application> 1.11.2 can be configured to
+            have the same behaviour as FreeBSD's version by setting
+            <literal>RereadLogAfterVerify=always</literal> in the
+            <filename>config</filename> file.</para></note>
         </listitem>
 
         <listitem>
           <para><filename>loginfo</filename> - this file is used by
             <application>CVS</application> to control where log
-            information is sent. You should not have to touch this
+            information is sent; <filename>log_accum.pl</filename> hooks
+            in here. You should not have to touch this
             file.</para>
         </listitem>
 
@@ -315,7 +330,8 @@
 
         <listitem>
           <para><filename>options</filename> - this file is specific to
-            the FreeBSD version of <application>CVS</application>. It contains
+            the FreeBSD version of <application>CVS</application>, and is
+            also supported by the Debian version. It contains
             the keyword to expand in revision headers. You should alter this to
             match the keyword you specified in
             <filename>cfg_local.pm</filename> (if you use that feature, which
@@ -324,7 +340,8 @@
 
         <listitem>
           <para><filename>rcsinfo</filename> - this file maps directories in
-            the repository to template files. By default, FreeBSD uses one
+            the repository to template files such as
+            <filename>rcstemplate</filename>. By default, FreeBSD uses one
             template for the whole repository. You can add others to this file
             if you wish.</para>
         </listitem>
@@ -345,29 +362,33 @@
 
         <listitem>
           <para><filename>taginfo</filename> - this file maps tag operations
-            on repository directories to access control scripts. You should not
+            on repository directories to access control scripts such as
+            <filename>tagcheck</filename>. You should not
             have to touch this file.</para>
         </listitem>
 
         <listitem>
-          <para><filename>unwrap</filename> - this script is needed to
+          <para><filename>unwrap</filename> - this script can be used to
             automatically <quote>unwrap</quote> binary files (see
             <filename>cvswrappers</filename>) on checkout. It is not used in the
-            current FreeBSD setup. You should not have to touch this
+            current FreeBSD setup because the functionality it hooks into
+            doesn't work well with remote commits. You should not have to touch this
             file.</para>
         </listitem>
 
         <listitem>
           <para><filename>verifymsg</filename> - this file maps repository
-            directories to post processor scripts of log messages. You should
+            directories to post processor scripts of log messages such as
+            <filename>logcheck</filename>. You should
             not have to touch this file.</para>
         </listitem>
 
         <listitem>
-          <para><filename>wrap</filename> - this script is needed to
+          <para><filename>wrap</filename> - this script can be used to
             automatically <quote>wrap</quote> binary files (see
             <filename>cvswrappers</filename>) on checkin. It is not used in the
-            current FreeBSD setup. You should not have to touch this
+            current FreeBSD setup because the functionality it hooks into
+            doesn't work well with remote commits. You should not have to touch this
             file.</para>
         </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>