aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/system/socklog
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2022-03-14 12:52:01 -0400
committerB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2022-03-17 12:38:12 -0400
commitfbc04439105ca14e6538a15b8e3751a6fd8961a3 (patch)
treeee4c4096ebee28070020bf92301736bae19ddcf3 /system/socklog
parent8436900e00ab2859993cd2b5f7824aca3e385673 (diff)
system/socklog: Wrap README at 72 columns.
Signed-off-by: B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'system/socklog')
-rw-r--r--system/socklog/README13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/system/socklog/README b/system/socklog/README
index 808c505ff37d..0a100dfceb0c 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.