Included improvements and bugfixes

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Joey Schulze
1997-06-10 21:06:52 +00:00
parent 251da95efb
commit 8947ba8d2f
4 changed files with 123 additions and 36 deletions

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@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ priorities belonging to the specified action.
Lines starting with a hash mark (``#'') and empty lines are ignored.
This release of
.B syslogd
is able to understand an extended syntax. One rule can be divided
into several lines if the leading line is terminated with an backslash
(``\\'').
.SH SELECTORS
The selector field itself again consists of two parts, a
.I facility
@@ -114,6 +120,7 @@ field is capable to overwrite the preceding ones. Using this
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
more intuitively. You may precede every priority with an equation sign
@@ -201,7 +208,7 @@ configuration, if not, drop me (Joey) a line.
.LP
This will store all messages with the priority
.B crit
or higher in the file
in the file
.IR /var/adm/critical ,
except for any kernel message.
@@ -286,7 +293,8 @@ and store them in the file
.nf
# Log info and notice messages to messages file
#
*.=info;*.=notice;mail.none /var/log/messages
*.=info;*.=notice;\\
mail.none /var/log/messages
.fi
.LP
This lets the
@@ -303,7 +311,8 @@ facility.
.nf
# Log info messages to messages file
#
*.=info;mail,news.none /var/log/messages
*.=info;\\
mail,news.none /var/log/messages
.fi
.LP
This statement causes the