From owner-cvs-all Tue Aug 28 8:37:26 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E1A37B406; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:37:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ru@whale.sunbay.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f7SFZTH52577; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 18:35:29 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 18:35:29 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Sheldon Hearn , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.c Message-ID: <20010828183529.C39758@sunbay.com> References: <200108272137.f7RLbFP70328@freefall.freebsd.org> <47156.998987939@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <20010828022238.C442@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from drosih@rpi.edu on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:31:01AM -0400 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:31:01AM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > 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. > I thought of that too initially, but then I scanned the entire syslogd(8) manpage and found no any mentions of the hostname. That should be fixed first, I guess. :-) Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message