Added documentation for `-a' argument.

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.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
.\" Sun Aug 30 11:35:55 MET: Martin Schulze: Updates
.\"
.TH SYSKLOGD 8 "13 December 1995" "Version 1.3" "Linux System Administration"
.TH SYSKLOGD 8 "12 October 1998" "Version 1.3" "Linux System Administration"
.SH NAME
sysklogd \- Linux system logging utilities.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B syslogd
.RB [ " \-a "
.I socket
]
.RB [ " \-d " ]
.RB [ " \-f "
.I config file
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.LP
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI "\-a " "socket"
Using this argument you can specify additional sockets from that
.B syslogd
has to listen to. This is needed if you're going to let some daemon
run within a chroot() environment. You can use up to 19 additional
sockets. If your environment needs even more, you have to increase
the symbol
.B MAXFUNIX
within the syslogd.c source file. An example for a chroot() daemon is
described by the people from OpenBSD at
http://www.psionic.com/papers/dns.html.
.TP
.B "\-d"
Turns on debug mode. Using this the daemon will not proceed a
.BR fork (2)