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authorRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2005-08-05 15:32:12 +0000
committerRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2005-08-05 15:32:12 +0000
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-rw-r--r--rsyslogd.88
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/rsyslog.conf.5 b/rsyslog.conf.5
index 0077ec9d..0de1c7fc 100644
--- a/rsyslog.conf.5
+++ b/rsyslog.conf.5
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
.\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
.\"
-.TH RSYSLOG.CONF 5 "2005-07-20" "Version 0.9" "Linux System Administration"
+.TH RSYSLOG.CONF 5 "2005-08-08" "Version 0.9.6" "Linux System Administration"
.SH NAME
rsyslog.conf \- rsyslogd(8) configuration file
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -709,23 +709,6 @@ actual table that is updated is specified within the template (which
contains the insert statement). The template is called "dbtemplate"
in this case.
-.SH CONFIGURATION FILE SYNTAX DIFFERENCES
-.B Rsyslogd
-uses a slightly different syntax for its configuration file than
-the original BSD sources. Originally all messages of a specific priority
-and above were forwarded to the log file. The modifiers ``='', ``!''
-and ``-'' were added to make
-.B rsyslogd
-more flexible and to use it in a more intuitive manner.
-
-The original BSD rsyslogd doesn't understand spaces as separators between
-the selector and the action field.
-
-When compared to syslogd from sysklogd package,
-.B rsyslogd
-offers template support. For obvious reasons, the syntax for
-template definitions is available in rsyslogd, only. The same
-applies to the write database action.
.SH FILES
.PD 0
.TP
@@ -733,14 +716,6 @@ applies to the write database action.
Configuration file for
.B rsyslogd
-.SH BUGS
-The effects of multiple selectors are sometimes not intuitive. For
-example ``mail.crit,*.err'' will select ``mail'' facility messages at
-the level of ``err'' or higher, not at the level of ``crit'' or
-higher.
-
-This is an early release. So be sure to check the file BUGS that came with
-the package for all the fun it offers ;)
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR syslogd (8),
.BR logger (1),
@@ -751,3 +726,9 @@ The
.B rsyslogd
is taken from sysklogd sources, which have been heavily modified
by Rainer Gerhards (rgerhards@adiscon.com) and others.
+
+.SH MORE INFORMATION
+The documentation has grown in size. Thus, this man page lists only the most
+important facts. The full documentation is available in html format in the doc
+folder of the rsyslog files or online at
+http://www.rsyslog.com/doc
diff --git a/rsyslogd.8 b/rsyslogd.8
index 95c45e29..64eac3d5 100644
--- a/rsyslogd.8
+++ b/rsyslogd.8
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
.\" Copyright 2004-2005 Rainer Gerhards and Adiscon for the rsyslog modifications
.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
.\"
-.TH RSYSLOGD 8 "01 August 2005" "Version 0.9.5" "Linux System Administration"
+.TH RSYSLOGD 8 "08 August 2005" "Version 0.9.6" "Linux System Administration"
.SH NAME
rsyslogd \- reliable and extended syslogd
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ rsyslogd \- reliable and extended syslogd
.RB [ " \-p"
.IB socket
]
-.RB [ " \-r " ]
+.RB [ " \-r "
+.I port
+]
.br
.RB [ " \-s "
.I domainlist
@@ -160,7 +162,7 @@ machine. When specified, no local log socket is opened at all.
You can specify an alternative unix domain socket instead of
.IR /dev/log "."
.TP
-.B "\-r " "port"
+.BI "\-r " "port"
Activates the syslog/udp listener service. The listener
will listen to the specified port. Please note that a
port must be specified in any case. This is different from