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| author | christos <christos@NetBSD.org> | 1996-05-13 16:50:43 +0000 |
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| committer | christos <christos@NetBSD.org> | 1996-05-13 16:50:43 +0000 |
| commit | c5228117113ba16ff8d3607c831ff817aeb908fa (patch) | |
| tree | 79bf03f4ed87d5e351130ab817f005a6252a749a /libexec | |
| parent | 03ca21bc0d4d253752461a12b2d4a77d6b304827 (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.8 | 12 |
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 |
