From e4851e06f03fdc028d3c6dba13ae27df7cfa6a4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerrit Pape Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:22:28 +0000 Subject: * svlogd.c: support sending log entries to remote host through udp, configurable through u and U lines in log dir config file; minor. * man/svlogd.8: adapt. --- man/svlogd.8 | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) (limited to 'man') 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 \- , -- cgit 1.4.1