[syslog-ng]syslog-ng.conf.5 patch

Jose Pedro Oliveira syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:07:33 +0000


Balazs,

No new syslog-ng snapshot has been created since Friday night.

Regards,
jpo

Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> 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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