From 1ff125949b87163340e96da6191683636614199d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Schulze Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 19:31:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Hopefully this version is easier to understand for non-english speakers. --- syslog.conf.5 | 19 ++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/syslog.conf.5 b/syslog.conf.5 index 408a3d7..10d76fe 100644 --- a/syslog.conf.5 +++ b/syslog.conf.5 @@ -121,12 +121,21 @@ behavior you can exclude some priorities from the pattern. This .BR syslogd (8) -has a syntax extension to the original BSD source, that makes its use +has a syntax extension to the original BSD source, which makes its use more intuitively. You may precede every priority with an equation 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 +(``='') to specify that +.B syslogd +should only refer to this single priority and not this priority and +all higher priorities. + +You may also precide the priority with an exclamation mark (``!'') if +you want +.B syslogd +to ignore this priority and all higher priorities. +You may even use both, the exclamation mark and the equation sign if +you want +.B syslogd +to ignore only this single priority. If you use both extensions than the exclamation mark must occur before the equation sign, just use it intuitively.