components/snort/patches/snort.8.patch
author James Chang <james.c.chang@Oracle.COM>
Fri, 02 Oct 2015 10:50:45 -0700
changeset 4915 48f204cc245c
parent 2198 168b8acace5f
child 5007 0052258cbb9d
permissions -rw-r--r--
PSARC/2015/333 EOL of grails 21494758 Removal of GRAILS from Solaris 21494777 Removal of GRAILS man page from Solaris

Adjust snort man page to be in section 1M and fix the comments w.r.t.
configuration file usage with the -T option.

The second part of this patch (the -T changes) has been submitted upstream.

--- snort.8.orig	2014-09-25 07:44:55.175565999 -0700
+++ snort.8	2014-09-26 11:19:43.998692220 -0700
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 .\" Process this file with
-.\" groff -man -Tascii snort.8
+.\" groff -man -Tascii snort.1m
 .\"
 .\" $Id$
-.TH SNORT 8 "December 2011"
+.TH SNORT 1M "December 2011"
 .SH NAME
 Snort \- open source network intrusion detection system
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -339,8 +339,7 @@
 indicating that everything is ready to proceed.  This is a good
 switch to use if daemon mode is going to be used, it verifies that
 the Snort configuration that is about to be used is valid and won't fail at
-run time. Note, Snort looks for either /etc/snort.conf or ./snort.conf.
-If your config lives elsewhere, use the -c option to specify a valid
+run time. Note that you will need to use the -c option to specify a valid
 .I config-file.
 .IP "-u user"
 Change the user/UID Snort runs under to
@@ -930,15 +929,15 @@
 Causes the daemon to close all opened files and restart.
 Please \fBnote\fR that this will only work if the \fBfull\fR pathname is
 used to invoke snort in daemon mode, otherwise snort will just exit with an
-error message being sent to \fBsyslogd(8)\fR.
+error message being sent to \fBsyslogd(1M)\fR.
 .PP
 .IP SIGUSR1
 Causes the program to dump its current packet statistical information to the
-console or \fBsyslogd(8)\fR if in daemon mode.
+console or \fBsyslogd(1M)\fR if in daemon mode.
 .PP
 .IP SIGUSR2
 Causes the program to rotate Perfmonitor statistical information to the 
-console or \fBsyslogd(8)\fR if in daemon mode.
+console or \fBsyslogd(1M)\fR if in daemon mode.
 .PP
 .IP SIGURG
 Causes the program to reload attribute table.