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authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-04-16 01:53:16 +0000
committerTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-04-16 01:53:16 +0000
commit9b54095b17bc5a91bb80586c7be18a4da9e08bf5 (patch)
tree003ec74ac8588a48714e42b9cca457ee240f87f9 /usr.sbin
parentd3b24785d0c6ac47f5baeffebf373673f7e113ff (diff)
for the Nth time, the damn syslog socket is required
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.810
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
index 22d5fcd6592..04ce723ee89 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: syslogd.8,v 1.11 2000/03/19 17:57:16 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: syslogd.8,v 1.12 2000/04/16 01:53:15 deraadt Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1986, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -112,6 +112,14 @@ and from the special device
(to read kernel messages).
.Pp
.Nm
+opens the above described socket whether or not it is
+running in secure mode.
+If
+.Nm
+is running in secure mode, all incoming data on this socket is discarded.
+The socket is required for sending forwarded messages.
+.Pp
+.Nm
creates the file
.Pa /var/run/syslog.pid ,
and stores its process ID there.