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author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2015-03-07 12:04:43 +0100 |
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committer | Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> | 2015-03-12 10:20:53 +0100 |
commit | e0610aa83114c1521e52dd099d3180d14dcff34e (patch) | |
tree | 7ef8f7743380c76a8906ef137e22ff2d8dfd9819 | |
parent | f1a52e176a553b6d17664c794352570363177db0 (diff) | |
download | util-linux-e0610aa83114c1521e52dd099d3180d14dcff34e.tar.gz |
logger man page: update --size doc
now we have strict sizes
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r-- | misc-utils/logger.1 | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/logger.1 b/misc-utils/logger.1 index b73f46a9a..164c5f49c 100644 --- a/misc-utils/logger.1 +++ b/misc-utils/logger.1 @@ -97,10 +97,13 @@ Most receivers accept larger than 1KiB message over any type of syslog protocol. As such, the \fB\-\-size\fR option affects logger in all cases (not only when \fB\-\-rfc5424\fR was used). -Note: the message size limit is not totally strict. It limits only -the user data, the size of the syslog header is not considered. While -this can lead to some truncation at the receiver level, a consistent limit -based on the user data size is generally wanted. +Note: the message size limit limits the overall message size, including +the syslog header. Header sizes vary depending on options selected and hostname +length. As a rule of thumb, headers are usually not longer than 50 to 80 +characters. When selecting maximum message size, it is important to ensure +that the receiver supports the max size as well, otherwise messages may +become truncated. Again, as a rule of thumb two to four KiB message size +should generally be OK, whereas anything larger should be verified to work. .TP .BR \-n , " \-\-server " \fIserver |