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diff --git a/man/svlogd.8 b/man/svlogd.8 index 2a5f1f3..677ff8e 100644 --- a/man/svlogd.8 +++ b/man/svlogd.8 @@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ contains some number of old log files, and the current log file .IR current . Old log files have a file name starting with .I @ -followed by a precise timestamp (see -.BR tai64n (8)), -indicating when +followed by a precise timestamp (see the daemontools' +.B tai64n +program), indicating when .I current was rotated and renamed to this file. .P @@ -328,13 +328,30 @@ matches any string. Timestamps optionally added by .B svlogd are not considered part of the log message. +.P +An +.B svlogd +pattern is not a regular expression. +For example consider a log message like this +.P + 2005-12-18_09:13:50.97618 tcpsvd: info: pid 1977 from 10.4.1.14 +.P +The following pattern doesn't match +.P + -*pid* +.P +because the first star matches up to the first p in tcpsvd, and then the +match fails because i is not s. +To match this log message, you can use a pattern like this instead +.P + -*: *: pid * .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-t timestamp. -Prefix each selected line with a precise timestamp (see -.BR tai64n (8)) -when writing to +Prefix each selected line with a precise timestamp (see the daemontools' +.B tai64n +program) when writing to .I log or to standard error. .TP @@ -415,16 +432,13 @@ with a non empty .I current log file. .SH SEE ALSO +sv(8), runsv(8), -runsvctrl(8), -runsvstat(8), chpst(8), runit(8), runit-init(8), runsvdir(8), -runsvchdir(8), -utmpset(8), -multilog(8) +runsvchdir(8) .P http://smarden.org/runit/ .SH AUTHOR |