Re: syslog config file format poll

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 23:04 -0400, David Corlette wrote:
> So, if I'm on an airplane trying to work out how to write a syslog-ng config file I should what... guess?

The documentation is also included in the source tarball, and should
also be installed by the package. But I'll check that as well.

> 
> You need to include a decent manpage with the product as it ships, isn't that obvious? 

We have a manual page on syslog-ng options, but not on the configuration
file format. It basically duplicates information from the manual.

The manual page has a more limited scope, thus it cannot be a complete
documentation, but then we'd be duplicating information between the
manual page and the reference manual. I don't like that.

I'd argue about the obviousness of having to include a manual page. You
don't have a manual page for apache either (as an example).

> 
> BTW, a Google search for "syslog-ng.conf" doesn't show the URL you mention on the first page of results - are you blocking index robots?

No, we are not doing that, but I'll check out.

I searched for "syslog-ng documentation", but it still is not found.

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll see what I can do.


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Bazsi