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authorPhilippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>1999-11-27 16:57:27 +0000
committerPhilippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>1999-11-27 16:57:27 +0000
commita39d9a0c5aa9dd2aeed0b6bb8bb2a4a87b4b1c84 (patch)
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.Nm corrections
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=53760
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diff --git a/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8 b/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
index 50bfd3a9d6ab..9fde86307d56 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ By default, this configuration file is
.Pa /etc/newsyslog.conf .
Each line of the file contains information about a particular log file
that should be handled by
-.Nm newsyslog .
+.Nm Ns .
Each line has five mandatory fields and four optional fields, with a
whitespace separating each field. Blank lines or lines beginning with
``#'' are ignored. The fields of the configuration file are as
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ and a time in a restricted
.Tn ISO 8601
format. If a time is specified, the log file will only be trimmed
if
-.Nm newsyslog
+.Nm
is run within one hour of the specified time. If an
interval is specified, the log file will be trimmed if that many hours have
passed since the last rotation. When both a time and an interval are
@@ -228,10 +228,13 @@ the signal number will be sent to the daemon process. By default
a SIGHUP will be sent.
.El
.Sh OPTIONS
-The following options can be used with newsyslog:
+The following options can be used with
+.Nm Ns :
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl f Ar config_file
-Instruct newsyslog to use
+Instruct
+.Nm
+to use
.Ar config_file
instead of
.Pa /etc/newsyslog.conf
@@ -265,7 +268,7 @@ fresh logs that contain only the problems.
.Bl -tag -width /etc/newsyslog.confxxxx -compact
.It Pa /etc/newsyslog.conf
.Nm
-configuration file.
+configuration file
.El
.Sh BUGS
Doesn't yet automatically read the logs to find security breaches.