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authorRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2007-07-16 06:02:20 +0000
committerRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2007-07-16 06:02:20 +0000
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reflected new semantics of -e option
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.\" Copyright 2004-2005 Rainer Gerhards and Adiscon for the rsyslog modifications
.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
.\"
-.TH RSYSLOGD 8 "03 July 2007" "Version 1.14.2 (devel)" "Linux System Administration"
+.TH RSYSLOGD 8 "17 July 2007" "Version 1.16.1 (devel)" "Linux System Administration"
.SH NAME
rsyslogd \- reliable and extended syslogd
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -145,11 +145,8 @@ foreground and write much debug information on the current tty. See the
DEBUGGING section for more information.
.TP
.B "\-e"
-Turns on delivery of every message (e like "every"). Without this
-option, rsyslog tries to suppress what seems to be duplicate messages.
-This is done by stock syslogd and rsyslogd mimics this behaviour for
-best compatibility. In many cases, however, one would like to see all
-messages on remote hosts. In this case, turn on the -e option.
+Set the default of $RepeatedMsgReduction config option to "off".
+Hine: "e" like "every message". For further information, see there.
.TP
.BI "\-f " "config file"
Specify an alternative configuration file instead of