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diff --git a/tools/rsyslog.conf.5 b/tools/rsyslog.conf.5 index e8a4ab92..6ce3c0e0 100644 --- a/tools/rsyslog.conf.5 +++ b/tools/rsyslog.conf.5 @@ -200,11 +200,11 @@ to overwrite the preceding ones. Using this behavior you can exclude some priorities from the pattern. Rsyslogd has a syntax extension to the original BSD source, that makes its use -more intuitively. You may precede every priority with an equation sign ('=') to +more intuitively. You may precede every priority with an equals sign ('=') to specify only this single priority and not any of the above. You may also (both is valid, too) precede the priority with an exclamation mark ('!') to ignore all that priorities, either exact this one or this and any higher priority. If -you use both extensions than the exclamation mark must occur before the equation +you use both extensions than the exclamation mark must occur before the equals sign, just use it intuitively. .SH ACTIONS @@ -272,14 +272,16 @@ Please note that rsyslogd offers a variety of options in regarding to remote forwarding. For full details, please see the html documentation. .SS List of users -Usually critical messages are also directed to ``root'' on that machine. You can specify a list -of users that shall get the message by simply writing the login. You may specify more than one -user by separating them with commas (','). If they're logged in they get the message. Don't -think a mail would be sent, that might be too late. +Usually critical messages are also directed to ``root'' on that machine. You +can specify a list +of users that shall get the message by simply writing ":omusrmsg:" followed +by the login name. You may specify more than one +user by separating them with commas (','). If they're logged in they +get the message (for example: ":omusrmsg:root,user1,user2"). .SS Everyone logged on Emergency messages often go to all users currently online to notify them that something strange -is happening with the system. To specify this wall(1)-feature use an asterisk ('*'). +is happening with the system. To specify this wall(1)-feature use an ":omusrmsg:*". .SS Database table This allows logging of the message to a database table. @@ -558,10 +560,10 @@ that space. Keep in mind that $outchannel just defines a channel with "name". It does not activate it. To do so, you must use a selector line (see below). That selector line includes the channel -name plus an $ sign in front of it. A sample might be: +name plus ":omfile:$" in front of it. A sample might be: .sp .RS -*.* $mychannel +*.* :omfile:$mychannel .RE .SH PROPERTY REPLACER |