From 26fb3a0e60f4b8964ceeb3fef90852ae0de59a51 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@cvs.openbsd.org>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2019 11:07:48 +0000
Subject: document how program names are extracted from log lines in order to
 select syslog.conf(5) line blocks

---
 usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'usr.sbin/syslogd')

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
-- 
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