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authorRyan Thomas McBride <mcbride@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-12-16 04:34:33 +0000
committerRyan Thomas McBride <mcbride@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-12-16 04:34:33 +0000
commitb0c87f9660a746ab8cb1be047264430c1ddf6552 (patch)
tree7cf4289f6ce9464e6c806ecbe5c37b65f2583192 /share
parent2c868ea56dbad5d738875a5038516cc6af38258b (diff)
Clean up first paragraph.
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/pflog.413
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/pflog.4 b/share/man/man4/pflog.4
index eb7a72e94ca..4f61d006073 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/pflog.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/pflog.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: pflog.4,v 1.4 2003/09/22 04:53:15 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: pflog.4,v 1.5 2003/12/16 04:34:32 mcbride Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2001 Tobias Weingartner
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -34,15 +34,16 @@
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm pflog
-interface is the interface the packet filter,
-.Xr pf 4 ,
-copies all the packets to which it has been configured to log.
-In this way, all logged packets can easily be monitored in real
+interface is a pseudo-device which make visible all packets logged by
+the packet filter,
+.Xr pf 4 .
+Logged packets can easily be monitored in real
time by invoking
.Xr tcpdump 8
on the
.Nm
-interface.
+interface, or stored to disk using
+.Xr pflogd 8 .
.Pp
Each packet retrieved on this interface has a header associated
with it of length