RE: syslog config file format poll

> > 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).

I'd like to second Bazsi's line of thought: man pages are pretty basic
and it is hard to get *all* the information into a man page. I have to
admit that for rsyslog I switched from man pages to html doc for that
reason, also on the config format. Now, I, too, have included a
contributed man page, but fear these two will become inconsistent. We
are currently thinking about the best format (with auto-generation of
man and html) - but it doesn't make much sense to write a 100page man
page, so you need to switch format at one point or another...

My 2cts...
Rainer