Fix some small errors and markup nits.

Approved by:	ru
MFC after:	2 days
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Crist J. Clark 2001-08-28 19:10:51 +00:00
parent 8e5d76275b
commit 7ae71655e7
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00
svn path=/head/; revision=82470

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@ -67,20 +67,19 @@ field is separated from the
field by one or more tab characters or spaces.
.Pp
Note that if you use spaces as separators, your
.Pa syslog.conf
.Nm
might be incompatible with other Unices or Unix-like systems.
This functionality was added for the ease of configuration
(e.g. it is possible to cut-and-paste into
.Pa syslog.conf ) ,
.Nm ) ,
and to avoid possible mistakes.
This change however preserves
backwards compatibility with the old style of the
.Pa syslog.conf
.Nm
(i.e. tab characters only).
.Pp
The
.Em Selectors
function
.Em selectors
are encoded as a
.Em facility ,
a period
@ -166,7 +165,7 @@ specification is a line beginning with
or
.Ql !prog
(the former is for compatibility with the previous syslogd, if one is sharing
.Pa syslog.conf
.Nm
files, for example)
and the following blocks will be associated with calls to
.Xr syslog 3
@ -305,8 +304,8 @@ Selected messages are written to all logged-in users.
A vertical bar
.Pq Dq \&| ,
followed by a command to pipe the selected
messages to. The command is passed to a
.Pa /bin/sh
messages to. The command is passed to
.Xr sh 1
for evaluation, so usual shell metacharacters or input/output
redirection can occur. (Note however that redirecting
.Xr stdio 3
@ -320,7 +319,7 @@ redirected to
.Pa /dev/null .
Upon receipt of a
.Dv SIGHUP ,
.Nm
.Xr syslogd 8
will close the pipe to the process. If the process didn't exit
voluntarily, it will be sent a
.Dv SIGTERM