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author | Philippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-01-23 20:22:23 +0000 |
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committer | Philippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-01-23 20:22:23 +0000 |
commit | 922a51eea09c234b85718186a2ed78dec6494b1c (patch) | |
tree | e9ea51a4a6bb4c77ca2be04c2e289874f1027d1d /usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 | |
parent | fea43bdfa54137152a390b36a271d7580c14fbe2 (diff) |
Add section number to .Xr. Use .Pa for filenames.
fprintf -> warnx.
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=56485
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 | 19 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 index 1563736d4ba4..4be715a76cd2 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 +++ b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ field which specifies the types of messages and priorities to which the line applies, and an .Em action field which specifies the action to be taken if a message -.Xr syslogd +.Xr syslogd 8 receives matches the selection criteria. The .Em selector @@ -65,15 +65,15 @@ field is separated from the field by one or more tab characters or spaces. .Pp Note that if you use spaces as separators, your -.Em syslog.conf +.Pa syslog.conf might be incompatible with other Unices or Unix-like systems. This functionality was added for the ease of configuration (e.g. it is possible to cut-and-paste into -.Em syslog.conf +.Pa syslog.conf ), and to avoid possible mistakes. This change however preserves backwards compatibility with the old style of the -.Em syslog.conf +.Pa syslog.conf (i.e. tab characters only). .Pp The @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ These keywords correspond to the similar .Dq Dv LOG_ values specified to the -.Xr syslog +.Xr syslog 3 library routine. .Pp Each block of lines is separated from the previous block by a tag. The tag @@ -141,7 +141,8 @@ is a line beginning with or .Em !prog (the former is for compatibility with the previous syslogd, if one is sharing -syslog.conf files, for example) +.Pa syslog.conf +files, for example) and each block will be associated with calls to syslog from that specific program. A tag for ``foo'' will also match any message logged by the kernel with the prefix ``foo: ''. @@ -233,7 +234,7 @@ A hostname (preceded by an at .Pq Dq @ sign). Selected messages are forwarded to the -.Xr syslogd +.Xr syslogd 8 program on the named host. .It A comma separated list of users. @@ -338,7 +339,9 @@ security.* /var/log/security configuration file .El .Sh BUGS -The effects of multiple selectors are sometimes not intuitive. +The effects of multiple +.Em selectors +are sometimes not intuitive. For example .Dq mail.crit,*.err will select |