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authorchristos <christos@NetBSD.org>1996-05-13 16:50:43 +0000
committerchristos <christos@NetBSD.org>1996-05-13 16:50:43 +0000
commitc5228117113ba16ff8d3607c831ff817aeb908fa (patch)
tree79bf03f4ed87d5e351130ab817f005a6252a749a /libexec
parent03ca21bc0d4d253752461a12b2d4a77d6b304827 (diff)
Explain why identd is using LOG_DAEMON to log messages instead of LOG_AUTH.
Diffstat (limited to 'libexec')
-rw-r--r--libexec/identd/identd.812
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libexec/identd/identd.8 b/libexec/identd/identd.8
index 5eafd612a38..ff85b1f2bdd 100644
--- a/libexec/identd/identd.8
+++ b/libexec/identd/identd.8
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
.\" Copyright (c) 1992 Peter Eriksson, Lysator, Linkoping University.
.\" This software has been released into the public domain.
.\"
-.\" $Id: identd.8,v 1.3 1994/02/04 23:42:16 cgd Exp $
+.\" $Id: identd.8,v 1.4 1996/05/13 16:50:43 christos Exp $
.\"
.TH IDENTD 8 "27 May 1992"
.SH NAME
@@ -228,6 +228,16 @@ defaults to the normally running kernel file.
defaults to the memory space of the normally running kernel.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR inetd.conf (5)
+.SH NOTES
+.B Identd
+uses the
+.I LOG_DAEMON
+syslogd(8) facility to log messages. This is the correct thing to do
+since
+.I LOG_AUTH
+is supposed to be used by authorization related programs, not authentication
+related ones such as
+.B identd.
.SH BUGS
The handling of fatal errors could be better.
.PP