Re: man-pages bug- syslog(3) grammar

Re: man-pages bug- syslog(3) grammar

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Hi Georgi!

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Georgi Naydenov <gnaydenov-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hello Michael,
> I guess that's your email here. First, thank you for your excellent book!
> (We met at the OpenFest in Sofia, Bulgaria a few years ago and luckily you
> had some copies with you. :)

Yes, I remember.

> About the pages - nothing special but what do you think about the commas
> when describing notice message priorty here:
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/syslog.3.html
> and also in syslog(3) at least on Fedora, CentOS6 and RHEL6/7beta.
>
>        LOG_NOTICE     normal, but significant, condition
>
> Shouldn't be "significant condition"? For example, as specified in RFC5424
> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424):
>
>                       ....
>               5       Notice: normal but significant condition
>               6       Informational: informational messages
>               7       Debug: debug-level messages
>
>               Table 2. Syslog Message Severities

Either form works, so I'll leave as is.

Cheers,

Michael
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Re: man-pages bug- syslog(3) grammar

[Georgi Naydenov]

Ah, ok then. Thanks for your reply and sorry for the spam ;)

Best regards,
Georgi


На 4/24/2014 8:03 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) написа:
> Hi Georgi!
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Georgi Naydenov <gnaydenov-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Hello Michael,
>> I guess that's your email here. First, thank you for your excellent book!
>> (We met at the OpenFest in Sofia, Bulgaria a few years ago and luckily you
>> had some copies with you. :)
> Yes, I remember.
>
>> About the pages - nothing special but what do you think about the commas
>> when describing notice message priorty here:
>> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/syslog.3.html
>> and also in syslog(3) at least on Fedora, CentOS6 and RHEL6/7beta.
>>
>>         LOG_NOTICE     normal, but significant, condition
>>
>> Shouldn't be "significant condition"? For example, as specified in RFC5424
>> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424):
>>
>>                        ....
>>                5       Notice: normal but significant condition
>>                6       Informational: informational messages
>>                7       Debug: debug-level messages
>>
>>                Table 2. Syslog Message Severities
> Either form works, so I'll leave as is.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael

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