[syslog-ng]syslog-ng.conf.5 patch
Balazs Scheidler
syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Sat, 12 Feb 2005 23:43:09 +0100
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 12:51 +0000, Jose Pedro Oliveira wrote:
> 1) doc/syslog-ng.conf.5
>
> The syslog-ng.conf.5 manpage patch *only* updates the
> information regarding the Global Options.
>
> Problems:
> The global option "long_hostnames" is only documented
> in the contrib/syslog-ng.conf.doc file (not in the SGML
> file). The global option "check_hostname" is only
> documented in the SGML file (not in the syslog-ng.conf.doc).
long_hostnames is a deprecated alias for chain_hostnames.
syslog-ng.conf.doc is a contributed file, I'm not maintaining it,
however I applied your patches.
>
> 2) contrib/syslog-ng.conf.doc
>
> The syslog-ng.conf.doc patch corrects the source type
> of /proc/kmsg (pipe -> file).
>
> Shouldn't this file be better located in the doc directory?
> (if this file is relocated, the contrib/README file will
> also need to be updated).
I don't want to maintain it, the authoritive source for syslog-ng
related information is the SGML based documentation, although certainly
having an up to date manpage is nice.
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Bazsi