Close of build 10.
--- rsyslog/tools/rsyslogd.8 Mon Apr 18 06:36:33 2011
+++ rsyslog/tools/rsyslogd.8 Fri May 25 11:13:23 2012
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
+'\" te
.\" Copyright 2004-2008 Rainer Gerhards and Adiscon for the rsyslog modifications
.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
.\"
-.TH RSYSLOGD 8 "29 July 2008" "Version 3.21.1" "Linux System Administration"
+.TH RSYSLOGD 1M "16 May 2012" "Version 6.2.0" "System Administration Commands"
.SH NAME
rsyslogd \- reliable and extended syslogd
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -44,17 +45,14 @@
unix domain sockets enables this utility to support both local
and remote logging.
-.B Note that this version of rsyslog ships with extensive documentation in html format.
-This is provided in the ./doc subdirectory and probably
-in a separate package if you installed rsyslog via a packaging system.
To use rsyslog's advanced features, you
.B need
-to look at the html documentation, because the man pages only cover
+to look at the online documentation, because the man pages only cover
basic aspects of operation.
-.B For details and configuration examples, see the rsyslog.conf (5)
+.B For details and configuration examples, see the rsyslog.conf (4)
.B man page and the online documentation at http://www.rsyslog.com/doc
-.BR Rsyslogd (8)
+.BR rsyslogd (1M)
is derived from the sysklogd package which in turn is derived from the
stock BSD sources.
@@ -170,7 +168,8 @@
Avoid auto-backgrounding. This is needed especially if the
.B rsyslogd
is started and controlled by
-.BR init (8).
+.BR init (1M),
+which is not the case on Solaris.
.TP
.B "\-N " "level"
Do a coNfig check. Do NOT run in regular mode, just check configuration
@@ -181,9 +180,6 @@
not specifying the -N option at all (so this makes limited sense) and
1 actually activates the code. Later, higher levels will mean more
verbosity (this is a forward-compatibility option).
-.B rsyslogd
-is started and controlled by
-.BR init (8).
.TP
.BI "\-q " "add hostname if DNS fails during ACL processing"
During ACL processing, hostnames are resolved to IP addresses for
@@ -257,7 +253,7 @@
operation and should only be done when actually necessary. Actually, it is
a rsyslgod stop immediately followed by a restart. Future versions will remove
this restart functionality of HUP (it will go away in v5). So it is advised to use
-HUP only for closing files, and a "real restart" (e.g. /etc/rc.d/rsyslogd restart)
+HUP only for closing files, and a "real restart" (e.g. svcadm restart svc:/system/system-log:rsyslog)
to activate configuration changes.
.TP
.B TERM ", " INT ", " QUIT
@@ -330,12 +326,10 @@
The file containing the process id of
.BR rsyslogd .
.TP
-.I prefix/lib/rsyslog
+.I /usr/lib/rsyslog
Default directory for
.B rsyslogd
-modules. The
-.I prefix
-is specified during compilation (e.g. /usr/local).
+modules.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.TP
.B RSYSLOG_DEBUG
@@ -378,20 +372,42 @@
.B RSYSLOG_MODDIR
Provides the default directory in which loadable modules reside.
.PD
-.SH BUGS
-Please review the file BUGS for up-to-date information on known
-bugs and annoyances.
.SH Further Information
Please visit
.BR http://www.rsyslog.com/doc
for additional information, tutorials and a support forum.
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.sp
+.LP
+See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+.sp
+
+.sp
+.TS
+tab() box;
+cw(2.75i) |cw(2.75i)
+lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i)
+.
+ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
+_
+Availabilitypkg:/system/rsyslog
+_
+Servicesvc:/system/system-log:rsyslog
+.TE
+
+.SH Solaris Usage
+The rsyslog instance of the system-log service is not enabled by default.
+To enable it, first "svcadm disable svc:/system/system-log:default", then
+"svcadm enable svc:/system/system-log:rsyslog". If you wish to enable log
+rotation, then add each file referenced in
+.BR rsyslog.conf(4)
+to /etc/logadm.conf.
.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR rsyslog.conf (5),
+.BR rsyslog.conf (4),
.BR logger (1),
-.BR syslog (2),
-.BR syslog (3),
-.BR services (5),
-.BR savelog (8)
+.BR syslog (3C),
+.BR services (4)
+.BR logadm.conf (4)
.LP
.SH COLLABORATORS
.B rsyslogd