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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2007-03-01 22:51:58 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2007-03-01 22:51:58 +0000
commitdd62e9c1742b49f6a10001419d1539547eb05707 (patch)
tree1b58b5edc80902cee6d4b5dc99483bd24d695c81 /usr.bin/rdist
parent9e7beaeb93db01f4ad55c4994ad698a4b9df49f6 (diff)
tidy up the MESSAGE LOGGING section;
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/rdist')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/rdist/rdist.164
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 40 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/rdist/rdist.1 b/usr.bin/rdist/rdist.1
index e1708eb85de..3970da53dc0 100644
--- a/usr.bin/rdist/rdist.1
+++ b/usr.bin/rdist/rdist.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: rdist.1,v 1.31 2007/03/01 22:36:25 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: rdist.1,v 1.32 2007/03/01 22:51:57 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -630,44 +630,27 @@ option just for this one host.
uses a collection of predefined message
.Em facilities
that each contain a list of message
-.Sy types
-specifying which types of messages to send to that
-.Em facility .
+.Em types
+specifying which types of messages to send to that facility.
The local client
-.Pq Nm rdist
and the remote server
-.Pq Xr rdistd 1
each maintain their own copy
of what types of messages to log to what facilities.
.Pp
The
.Fl l
.Ar local_logopts
-option to
-.Nm
-tells
-.Nm
-what logging options to use locally.
-The
+option specifies the logging options to use locally;
.Fl L
.Ar remote_logopts
-option to
-.Nm
-tells
-.Nm
-what logging options to pass to the remote
-.Em rdistd
-server.
+specifies the logging options to pass to the remote server.
.Pp
-.Em logopts
-should be of the form:
+Logging options should be of the form:
.Pp
.D1 facility=types:facility=types...
.Pp
The valid facility names are:
-.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It Ic stdout
-Messages to standard output.
+.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent
.It Ic file
Log to a file.
To specify the file name, use the format
@@ -675,10 +658,6 @@ To specify the file name, use the format
For example:
.Pp
.Dl file=/tmp/rdist.log=all,debug
-.It Ic syslog
-Use the
-.Xr syslogd 8
-facility.
.It Ic notify
Use the internal
.Nm
@@ -691,39 +670,44 @@ keyword in a
to specify what messages are mailed to the
.Ic notify
address.
+.It Ic stdout
+Messages to standard output.
+.It Ic syslog
+Use the
+.Xr syslogd 8
+facility.
.El
.Pp
-.Em types
+.Ar types
should be a comma separated list of message types.
Each message type specified enables that message level.
This is unlike the
.Xr syslog 3
system facility which uses an ascending order scheme.
-The following are the valid
-.Em types :
-.Bl -tag -width Ds
+The following are the valid types:
+.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent
+.It Ic all
+All but debug messages.
.It Ic change
Things that change.
This includes files that are installed or updated in some way.
+.It Ic debug
+Debugging information.
+.It Ic ferror
+Fatal errors.
.It Ic info
General information.
+.It Ic nerror
+Normal errors that are not fatal.
.It Ic notice
General info about things that change.
This includes things like making directories which are needed in order
to install a specific target, but which are not explicitly specified in the
.Pa distfile .
-.It Ic nerror
-Normal errors that are not fatal.
-.It Ic ferror
-Fatal errors.
.It Ic warning
Warnings about errors which are not as serious as
.Ic nerror
type messages.
-.It Ic debug
-Debugging information.
-.It Ic all
-All but debug messages.
.El
.Pp
Here is a sample command line option: