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author | cjc <cjc@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-08-28 19:10:51 +0000 |
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committer | cjc <cjc@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-08-28 19:10:51 +0000 |
commit | eda113cf152e791a3f365da5000c104a42de9cfb (patch) | |
tree | 90afe9e80f09bb196dcb03d25d7d01b4521e828b /usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 | |
parent | b1deb88543efff2a2f928e7d44e88e056d04bea8 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-eda113cf152e791a3f365da5000c104a42de9cfb.zip FreeBSD-src-eda113cf152e791a3f365da5000c104a42de9cfb.tar.gz |
Fix some small errors and markup nits.
Approved by: ru
MFC after: 2 days
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 | 17 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 index 2141c0a..0385c57 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 +++ b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 @@ -67,20 +67,19 @@ field is separated from the field by one or more tab characters or spaces. .Pp Note that if you use spaces as separators, your -.Pa syslog.conf +.Nm 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 -.Pa syslog.conf ) , +.Nm ) , and to avoid possible mistakes. This change however preserves backwards compatibility with the old style of the -.Pa syslog.conf +.Nm (i.e. tab characters only). .Pp The -.Em Selectors -function +.Em selectors are encoded as a .Em facility , a period @@ -166,7 +165,7 @@ specification is a line beginning with or .Ql !prog (the former is for compatibility with the previous syslogd, if one is sharing -.Pa syslog.conf +.Nm files, for example) and the following blocks will be associated with calls to .Xr syslog 3 @@ -305,8 +304,8 @@ Selected messages are written to all logged-in users. A vertical bar .Pq Dq \&| , followed by a command to pipe the selected -messages to. The command is passed to a -.Pa /bin/sh +messages to. The command is passed to +.Xr sh 1 for evaluation, so usual shell metacharacters or input/output redirection can occur. (Note however that redirecting .Xr stdio 3 @@ -320,7 +319,7 @@ redirected to .Pa /dev/null . Upon receipt of a .Dv SIGHUP , -.Nm +.Xr syslogd 8 will close the pipe to the process. If the process didn't exit voluntarily, it will be sent a .Dv SIGTERM |