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| author | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2019-01-13 11:07:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2019-01-13 11:07:48 +0000 |
| commit | 26fb3a0e60f4b8964ceeb3fef90852ae0de59a51 (patch) | |
| tree | e9bc23ff0ad14c2b5482f39ff3ff4d5df8c75ae2 /usr.sbin/syslogd | |
| parent | e21173a11ef9e11f43d2add977ddba1477e35099 (diff) | |
document how program names are extracted from log lines
in order to select syslog.conf(5) line blocks
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/syslogd')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 index 6f05330b733..8ae2919c3d2 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 +++ b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 @@ -26,10 +26,10 @@ .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" from: @(#)syslog.conf.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93 -.\" $OpenBSD: syslog.conf.5,v 1.38 2018/07/23 19:02:49 kn Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: syslog.conf.5,v 1.39 2019/01/13 11:07:47 schwarze Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: syslog.conf.5,v 1.4 1996/01/02 17:41:46 perry Exp $ .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 23 2018 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: January 13 2019 $ .Dt SYSLOG.CONF 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -158,6 +158,15 @@ and the first word in the message after the date matches the the action specified in the .Em action field will be taken. +In this context, +.Xr ascii 7 +letters, digits, hyphens +.Pq Sq - , +periods +.Pq Sq \&. , +and underscores +.Pq Sq _ +can be contained in a word; other bytes end the word. .Pp Multiple .Em selectors |