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syslogd: Drop -l HOST flag, the RFCs are very clear on this point

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Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
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Joachim Nilsson
2019-11-12 12:05:03 +01:00
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@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
.Op Fl ?46Adhnv
.Op Fl b Ar :SVC
.Op Fl f Ar FILE
.Op Fl l Ar HOST[:HOST]
.Op Fl m Ar SECONDS
.Op Fl P Ar FILE
.Op Fl p Ar SOCK
@ -116,10 +115,6 @@ hosts. Specifying this switch on the command line will cause the log
daemon to forward any remote messages it receives to forwarding hosts
which have been defined. This can cause syslog loops that fill up hard
disks quite fast and thus needs to be used with caution.
.It Fl l Ar HOST
Specify a hostname that should be logged only with its simple hostname
and not the fqdn. Multiple hosts may be specified using the colon (':')
separator.
.It Fl m Ar SECONDS
.Nm
logs a mark timestamp regularly. The default interval between two
@ -354,11 +349,6 @@ If the remote host is located in the same domain as the host,
is running on, only the simple hostname will be logged instead of the
whole FQDN.
.Pp
Using the
.Fl l
option it is possibile to define single hosts as local machines. This
also results in logging only their simple hostnames and not the FQDNs.
.Pp
The UDP socket used to forward messages to remote hosts or to receive
messages from them is only opened when it is needed. In releases
prior to 1.3-23 it was opened every time but not opened for reading or