Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:54:40 -0500 (EST) From: pepper@reppep.com (Chris Pepper) To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/45604: Minor language fixes to syslog.conf.5 Message-ID: <20021122215440.9DCCAAC7C@www.reppep.com>
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>Number: 45604
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Minor language fixes to syslog.conf.5
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
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>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Nov 22 14:00:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Chris Pepper
>Release:
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD www.reppep.com 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Wed Nov 20 01:10:47 EST 2002 root@www.reppep.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
/usr/share/man/man5/syslog.conf.5.gz is a bit unclear. Following are a bunch of language fixes.
In addition, I have a few further issues I can't propose fixes for:
Is it possible to specify a host without + or - syntax? Is +host additive, or does it reset and add just that host?
It would be helpful to include hostname selection examples here, and perhaps commented out in /etc/syslog.conf (commented out) as well.
Are # lines comments, or host/prog separators, or both at different times? These two paragraphs appear to conflict:
A program specification is a line beginning with `#!prog' or `!prog' (the
former is for compatibility with the previous syslogd, if one is sharing
syslog.conf files, for example) and the following blocks will be associ-
ated with calls to syslog(3) from that specific program. A program spec-
ification for `foo' will also match any message logged by the kernel with
the prefix `foo: '. The `#!+prog' or `!+prog' specification works just
like the previous one, and the `#!-prog' or `!-prog' specification will
match any message but the ones from that program. A hostname specifica-
tion of the form `#+hostname' or `+hostname' and the following blocks
will be applied to messages received from the specified hostname. Alter-
natively, a hostname specification `#-hostname' or `-hostname' causes the
following blocks to be applied to messages from any host but the one
specified. If the hostname is given as `@', the local hostname will be
used. A program or hostname specification may be reset by giving the
program or hostname as `*'.
Blank lines and lines whose first non-blank character is a hash (``#'')
character are ignored.
>How-To-Repeat:
man syslog.conf
>Fix:
--- syslog.conf.5.diff begins here ---
--- syslog.conf.5 Mon Nov 18 14:50:24 2002
+++ syslog.conf.5.fixed Fri Nov 22 16:18:45 2002
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
.Em program
and
.Em hostname
-specifications,
+specifications (separations appear along on the line),
with each line containing two fields: the
.Em selector
field which specifies the types of messages and priorities to which the
@@ -69,12 +69,12 @@
Note that if you use spaces as separators, your
.Nm
might be incompatible with other Unices or Unix-like systems.
-This functionality was added for the ease of configuration
+This functionality was added for ease of configuration
(e.g. it is possible to cut-and-paste into
.Nm ) ,
and to avoid possible mistakes.
This change however preserves
-backwards compatibility with the old style of the
+backwards compatibility with the old style of
.Nm
(i.e. tab characters only).
.Pp
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
the following keywords: auth, authpriv, console, cron, daemon, ftp, kern,
lpr, mail, mark, news, ntp, security, syslog, user, uucp and local0 through
local7.
-These keywords (with the exception of mark) correspond to the
+These keywords (with the exception of mark) correspond to
similar
.Dq Dv LOG_
values specified to the
@@ -113,14 +113,14 @@
The
.Em comparison flags
may be used to specify exactly what is logged.
-The default set of comparison flags are
+The default comparison is
.Dq =>
(or, if you prefer,
.Dq >= ) ,
which means that messages from the specified
.Em facility
-list of a priority
-level equal or greater than
+list, and of a priority
+level equal to or greater than
.Em level
will be logged.
.Pp
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
describes the severity of the message, and is a keyword from the
following ordered list (higher to lower): emerg, alert, crit, err,
warning, notice, info and debug.
-These keywords correspond to the
+These keywords correspond to
similar
.Dq Dv LOG_
values specified to the
@@ -146,14 +146,14 @@
and
.Em hostname
specifications given.
-Thus, a block which selects
+Thus, with a block which selects
.Ql ppp
as the
.Em program ,
directly followed by a block that selects messages from the
.Em hostname
.Ql dialhost ,
-then the second block will only log messages
+the second block will only log messages
from the
.Xr ppp 8
program on dialhost.
@@ -193,9 +193,9 @@
.Ql #+hostname
or
.Ql +hostname
-and the following blocks will be applied to messages
+means the following blocks will be applied to messages
received from the specified hostname.
-Alternatively, a
+Alternatively, the
.Em hostname
specification
.Ql #-hostname
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@
.Pp
See
.Xr syslog 3
-for a further descriptions of both the
+for further descriptions of both the
.Em facility
and
.Em level
@@ -263,9 +263,9 @@
An asterisk
.Pq Dq *
can be used to specify all
-.Em facilities
+.Em facilities ,
all
-.Em levels
+.Em levels ,
or all
.Em programs .
.Pp
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@
A configuration file might appear as follows:
.Bd -literal
# Log all kernel messages, authentication messages of
-# level notice or higher and anything of level err or
+# level notice or higher, and anything of level err or
# higher to the console.
# Don't log private authentication messages!
*.err;kern.*;auth.notice;authpriv.none /dev/console
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@
.Dq kern
are usually translated to facility
.Dq user .
-This translation can be disabled,
+This translation can be disabled;
see
.Xr syslogd 8
for details.
--- syslog.conf.5.diff ends here ---
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