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| author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2016-09-24 11:31:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2016-09-24 11:31:00 +0000 |
| commit | b5bac4eb1dac464b7da4b94515db6909d4398367 (patch) | |
| tree | 047624cb687c88e85206afb761017db94a4beead /usr.sbin | |
| parent | 73c7cb6e01c1a117dae0f46547b92d846e636212 (diff) | |
improve DESCRIPTION;
from bluhm and myself
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 index faffac7088e..56069bfea88 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: syslogd.8,v 1.48 2016/09/23 19:05:55 bluhm Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: syslogd.8,v 1.49 2016/09/24 11:30:59 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1986, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" from: @(#)syslogd.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 .\" $NetBSD: syslogd.8,v 1.3 1996/01/02 17:41:48 perry Exp $ .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: September 23 2016 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: September 24 2016 $ .Dt SYSLOGD 8 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -55,9 +55,11 @@ .Ek .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm -reads and logs messages to the system console, log files, pipes to -other programs, other machines and/or users as specified by its -configuration file. +writes system messages to log files or a user's terminal. +Output can be sent to other programs +for further processing. +It can also securely send and receive log messages +to and from remote hosts. .Pp The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width Ds |