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authorbrian <brian@FreeBSD.org>1997-05-06 23:11:06 +0000
committerbrian <brian@FreeBSD.org>1997-05-06 23:11:06 +0000
commit213a2efd3a7c6eb44eec3a6ca67c84b9a8fad0dd (patch)
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parent333837f71d742345bb92fdbd6d33f48869da3907 (diff)
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Allow a '-' flag as a placeholder so that path_to_pid_file
can be specified without the flags field. Fix bogus "trail" left in parse routine where the code jumps past the end of the line and wanders into oblivion.
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8 b/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
index c9e4550..7ded4d2 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
.\" This file contains changes from the Open Software Foundation.
.\"
.\" from: @(#)newsyslog.8
-.\" $Id: newsyslog.8,v 1.5 1997/02/28 07:33:37 mpp Exp $
+.\" $Id: newsyslog.8,v 1.6 1997/05/04 01:53:53 ache Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright 1988, 1989 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
.\"
@@ -112,7 +112,11 @@ flag means that the file is a binary file, and so the ASCII
message which
.Nm
inserts to indicate the fact that the logs have been
-turned over should not be included.
+turned over should not be included. The
+.Ar -
+flag means nothing, but can be used as a placeholder when the
+.Ar path_to_pid_file
+field is specified.
.It Ar path_to_pid_file
This optional field specifies
the file name to read to find the daemon process id. If this
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