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Date:      Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:31:01 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.c
Message-ID:  <p0510101bb7b1687f703f@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20010828022238.C442@blossom.cjclark.org>
References:  <200108272137.f7RLbFP70328@freefall.freebsd.org> <47156.998987939@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <20010828022238.C442@blossom.cjclark.org>

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At 2:22 AM -0700 8/28/01, Crist J. Clark wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:38:59AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>  > This should probably be noted in the manual page.
>
>I really didn't see anywhere where the current behavior on a SIGHUP
>is too precisely noted. All syslogd(8) says is,
>
>      The syslogd daemon reads its configuration file when it starts
>      up and whenever it receives a hangup signal.
>
>Seems odd to over emphisize this one little aspect of a syslogd(8)
>reload. I think that this would be what people would expect. IMHO,
>the old behavior was buggy.

I think it's worth mentioning.  Is there any other system where
syslogd refreshes it's idea of a hostname?  What is there says
only that it reads the configuration file, so people would NOT
expect it to refresh the hostname.  I don't think it needs much
said about it, but a few words on it would be reasonable.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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