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| author | mike <mike@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-07-18 13:31:08 +0000 |
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| committer | mike <mike@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-07-18 13:31:08 +0000 |
| commit | f5302392d3514b93dafbfcb158356a3d1629f737 (patch) | |
| tree | 87dec52915ffb8927d6a230cab536b8f2c62fce6 /usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 | |
| parent | c821518deccc91e99365d666efaedd4bcc336d22 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-f5302392d3514b93dafbfcb158356a3d1629f737.zip FreeBSD-src-f5302392d3514b93dafbfcb158356a3d1629f737.tar.gz | |
Document the fact that syslogd(8) requires logs files to be created
before it will start logging to them.
PR: 27088
Approved by: des
MFC after: 10 days
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 index ff4bd3a..1f6b3a3 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 @@ -248,6 +248,12 @@ decimal number in angle braces, for example, This priority code should map into the priorities defined in the include file .Aq Pa sys/syslog.h . +.Pp +For security reasons, +.Nm +will not append to log files that do not exist; +therefore, they must be created manually before running +.Nm . .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width /var/run/syslog.pid -compact .It Pa /etc/syslog.conf |
