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| author | B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> | 2022-03-14 12:52:01 -0400 |
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| committer | B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com> | 2022-03-17 12:38:12 -0400 |
| commit | fbc04439105ca14e6538a15b8e3751a6fd8961a3 (patch) | |
| tree | ee4c4096ebee28070020bf92301736bae19ddcf3 /system/socklog/README | |
| parent | 8436900e00ab2859993cd2b5f7824aca3e385673 (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-fbc04439105ca14e6538a15b8e3751a6fd8961a3.tar.gz | |
system/socklog: Wrap README at 72 columns.
Signed-off-by: B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/system/socklog/README b/system/socklog/README index 808c505ff3..0a100dfceb 100644 --- a/system/socklog/README +++ b/system/socklog/README @@ -1,10 +1,13 @@ -socklog, in cooperation with the runit package, is a small and secure replacement for syslogd. +socklog, in cooperation with the runit package, is a small and secure +replacement for syslogd. -It can receive syslog messages from a unix domain socket ("/dev/log") and -write them to various files on disk depending on facility and priority. +It can receive syslog messages from a unix domain socket ("/dev/log") +and write them to various files on disk depending on facility and +priority. -It can receive messages from a udp socket ("0.0.0.0:514") and write them to -disk, or forward the messages to another udp socket ("a.b.c.d:514"). +It can receive messages from a udp socket ("0.0.0.0:514") and +write them to disk, or forward the messages to another udp socket +("a.b.c.d:514"). svlogd has a built in log file rotation based on file size, so there is no need for any cron jobs or similar to rotate the logs. |