- Allow comments to be placed at the end of configuration line.

Sponsored by:   Porta Software Ltd
Approved by:    re
MFC after:      2 weeks

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8 b/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
index f55986b..03f540b 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
@@ -79,7 +79,11 @@ that should be handled by
 .Nm .
 Each line has five mandatory fields and four optional fields, with
 whitespace separating each field.  Blank lines or lines beginning with
-``#'' are ignored.  The fields of the configuration file are as
+``#'' are ignored.  If ``#'' is placed in the middle of the line,
+``#'' character and the rest of the line after it is ignored.
+To prevent special meaning, the ``#'' may be escaped with ``\\'',
+in this case preceding ``\\'' is removed and ``#'' treated as ordinary
+character.  The fields of the configuration file are as
 follows:
 .Pp
 .Bl -tag -width indent
@@ -297,7 +301,7 @@ to archive all filenames matching this pattern using the same
 options.
 See
 .Xr glob 3
-for details on matching rules.
+for details on syntax and matching rules.
 .It Ar path_to_pid_file
 This optional field specifies
 the file name to read to find the daemon process id.  If this