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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2014-06-30 19:06:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2014-06-30 19:06:11 +0200 |
| commit | 8c63bf4ab0d826148fa86e0b56b3498eff4a69b0 (patch) | |
| tree | 540e7a91f1c585589505223d2b5ff52bef3b53b2 /man | |
| parent | 9546c6ed678bf8fbb93b9be620c9727b0e3d58ae (diff) | |
man: drop references to manual StandardError=syslog from daemon(7), we do this implicitly since ages
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/daemon.xml | 38 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/man/daemon.xml b/man/daemon.xml index 1a2c325f9b..d7cf002363 100644 --- a/man/daemon.xml +++ b/man/daemon.xml @@ -321,29 +321,21 @@ interface.</para></listitem> <listitem><para>Instead of using the - <function>syslog()</function> call to log directly to the - system syslog service, a new-style daemon may - choose to simply log to standard error via - <function>fprintf()</function>, which is then forwarded to - syslog by the init system. If log - priorities are necessary, these can be - encoded by prefixing individual log - lines with strings like "<4>" - (for log priority 4 "WARNING" in the - syslog priority scheme), following a - similar style as the Linux kernel's - <function>printk()</function> priority system. In fact, - using this style of logging also - enables the init system to optionally - direct all application logging to the - kernel log buffer (kmsg), as - accessible via - <citerefentry><refentrytitle>dmesg</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>. This - kind of logging may be enabled by - setting - <varname>StandardError=syslog</varname> - in the service unit file. For details, - see + <function>syslog()</function> call to + log directly to the system syslog + service, a new-style daemon may choose + to simply log to standard error via + <function>fprintf()</function>, which + is then forwarded to syslog by the + init system. If log priorities are + necessary, these can be encoded by + prefixing individual log lines with + strings like "<4>" (for log + priority 4 "WARNING" in the syslog + priority scheme), following a similar + style as the Linux kernel's + <function>printk()</function> priority + system. For details, see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>sd-daemon</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> and <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd.exec</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.</para></listitem> |