From 06c1ad4f8b54affde57d928c9557034969c36e21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Duncan Overbruck <mail@duncano.de>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 13:37:01 +0200
Subject: vlogger: force to use syslog if message arguments are given

---
 vlogger.8 | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

(limited to 'vlogger.8')

diff --git a/vlogger.8 b/vlogger.8
index 820cf3b..b7919d9 100644
--- a/vlogger.8
+++ b/vlogger.8
@@ -12,17 +12,35 @@
 .Op Fl t Ar tag
 .Op Ar message ...
 .Sh DESCRIPTION
-By default,
+The
 .Nm
-reads lines from
+utility writes messages to the system log.
+.Pp
+With
+.Ar message
+arguments
+.Nm
+will always write messages to the system log.
+Without
+.Ar message
+arguments
+.Nm
+reads messages from
 .Dv stdin
-and sends them to syslog.
-If the file
+or the file specified with the
+.Fl f
+flag.
+If the
 .Pa /etc/vlogger
-exists and is executable it is executed with
-.Ar tag
-as only argument and replaces
-.Nm .
+executable exists
+.Nm
+executes it with
+.Ar tag ,
+level
+and priority as arguments,
+replacing the
+.Nm
+process.
 .Pp
 If
 .Nm
@@ -34,10 +52,10 @@ supervision suite it uses the service name as default
 As example if
 .Nm
 is linked to
-.Dv /var/service/foo/log/run
+.Pa /var/service/foo/log/run
 it uses
-.Dv foo
-as default
+.Dq foo
+as
 .Ar tag .
 .Pp
 The options are as follows:
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