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| -rw-r--r-- | man/svlogd.8 | 31 |
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diff --git a/man/svlogd.8 b/man/svlogd.8 index 7448c00..b170fe5 100644 --- a/man/svlogd.8 +++ b/man/svlogd.8 @@ -198,6 +198,37 @@ to feed each recent log file through .I processor (see above) on log file rotation. By default log files are not processed. +.TP +.RI u a.b.c.d[:port] +tells +.B svlogd +to transmit the first +.I len +characters of selected log messages to the IP address +.IR a.b.c.d , +port number +.IR port . +If +.I port +isn't set, the default port for syslog is used (514). +.I len +can be set through the \-l option, see below. +If +.B svlogd +has trouble sending udp packets, it writes error messages to the log +directory. +Attention: +logging through udp is unreliable, and should be used in private networks +only. +.TP +.RI U a.b.c.d[:port] +is the same as the +.I u +line above, but the log messages are no longer written to the log directory, +but transmitted through udp only. +Error messages from +.B svlogd +concerning sending udp packages still go to the log directory. .P If a line starts with a .IR \- , |