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Update man pages with info on new per-file log rotation settings

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Signed-off-by: Joachim Nilsson <troglobit@gmail.com>
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Joachim Nilsson
2018-09-25 09:39:16 +02:00
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@@ -111,7 +111,12 @@ described by the people from OpenBSD at
.BI "\-b " "size"
This option controls the max size of files in the built-in log-rotation.
When present on the command line it activates log rotation of all files
with the given maximum size. Default: disabled (0).
with the given maximum size. It is also possible to control log rotate
per log file, see
.BR syslog.conf (5)
for details.
Default: disabled (0).
.TP
.BI "\-c " "count"
This option controls the max number of files kept by the built-in
@@ -119,7 +124,12 @@ log-rotation. To activate the built-in log rotation this option must be
combined with the
.BI "\-b"
option. The number of files kept include both gzipped files and the
first rotated (not zipped) file. Default: 5.
first rotated (not zipped) file. It is also possible to control log
rotate per log file, see
.BR syslog.conf (5)
for details.
Default: 5.
.TP
.B "\-d"
Turns on debug mode. Using this the daemon will not proceed a