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authorRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2012-10-22 09:22:55 +0200
committerRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2012-10-22 09:22:55 +0200
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doc: remove BSD blocks from rsyslog.conf manpage
Thanks to Michael Biebl for mentioning this. closes: http://bugzilla.adiscon.com/show_bug.cgi?id=364
-rw-r--r--tools/rsyslog.conf.59
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/tools/rsyslog.conf.5 b/tools/rsyslog.conf.5
index dcc9b7c7..641ba9ba 100644
--- a/tools/rsyslog.conf.5
+++ b/tools/rsyslog.conf.5
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
.\" along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
.\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
.\"
-.TH RSYSLOG.CONF 5 "11 July 2008" "Version 3.18.0" "Linux System Administration"
+.TH RSYSLOG.CONF 5 "22 October 2012" "Version 7.2.0" "Linux System Administration"
.SH NAME
rsyslog.conf \- rsyslogd(8) configuration file
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -335,13 +335,6 @@ Rsyslog offers three different types "filter conditions":
* expression-based filters
.RE
-.SS Blocks
-Rsyslogd supports BSD-style blocks inside rsyslog.conf. Each block of lines is separated from
-the previous block by a program or hostname specification. A block will only log messages
-corresponding to the most recent program and hostname specifications given. Thus, a block which
-selects "ppp" as the program, directly followed by a block that selects messages from the
-hostname "dialhost", then the second block will only log messages from the ppp program on dialhost.
-
.SS Selectors
.B Selectors are the traditional way of filtering syslog messages.
They have been kept in rsyslog with their original syntax, because it is well-known, highly