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authorcharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>1999-11-27 16:57:27 +0000
committercharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>1999-11-27 16:57:27 +0000
commitba04e5f50164ae7a5aa293f86508a3f0333b95f5 (patch)
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parent25df80d2a34a119e317bb5f47ad33c7819096e7a (diff)
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.Nm corrections
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-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.813
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8 b/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
index 50bfd3a..9fde863 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ By default, this configuration file is
.Pa /etc/newsyslog.conf .
Each line of the file contains information about a particular log file
that should be handled by
-.Nm newsyslog .
+.Nm Ns .
Each line has five mandatory fields and four optional fields, with a
whitespace separating each field. Blank lines or lines beginning with
``#'' are ignored. The fields of the configuration file are as
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ and a time in a restricted
.Tn ISO 8601
format. If a time is specified, the log file will only be trimmed
if
-.Nm newsyslog
+.Nm
is run within one hour of the specified time. If an
interval is specified, the log file will be trimmed if that many hours have
passed since the last rotation. When both a time and an interval are
@@ -228,10 +228,13 @@ the signal number will be sent to the daemon process. By default
a SIGHUP will be sent.
.El
.Sh OPTIONS
-The following options can be used with newsyslog:
+The following options can be used with
+.Nm Ns :
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl f Ar config_file
-Instruct newsyslog to use
+Instruct
+.Nm
+to use
.Ar config_file
instead of
.Pa /etc/newsyslog.conf
@@ -265,7 +268,7 @@ fresh logs that contain only the problems.
.Bl -tag -width /etc/newsyslog.confxxxx -compact
.It Pa /etc/newsyslog.conf
.Nm
-configuration file.
+configuration file
.El
.Sh BUGS
Doesn't yet automatically read the logs to find security breaches.
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