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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-03-25 00:10:41 +0100
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-03-25 00:10:41 +0100
commitd2753d220044892495769f7f9fca297cf86d01b9 (patch)
tree95401686a63df48bc8a26adc9e079cd53657caa7
parentb107b705cc97d3033e37c44229deb37b5aa31df5 (diff)
man: explain that the journal field SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER is usually derived from program_invocation_short_name
-rw-r--r--man/systemd.journal-fields.xml5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
index d77e6eb1b6..6eeb6e395d 100644
--- a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
@@ -156,7 +156,10 @@
(formatted as decimal string),
the identifier string
(i.e. "tag"), and the client
- PID.</para>
+ PID. (Note that the tag is
+ usually derived from glibc's
+ <varname>program_invocation_short_name</varname>
+ variable, see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>program_invocation_short_name</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>