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| -rw-r--r-- | system/socklog/README | 13 |
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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. |