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authorRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2015-03-07 12:04:43 +0100
committerKarel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>2015-03-10 11:19:33 +0100
commita43022fdd48c544278fb12a3e4e1df7e6293152a (patch)
treea56d743384c107b0aa090d9133a82499e9eb73b5
parentb9ef27f59bffbeaf5397538ea16065d4eb6364c8 (diff)
downloadutil-linux-playground-a43022fdd48c544278fb12a3e4e1df7e6293152a.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.111
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/misc-utils/logger.1 b/misc-utils/logger.1
index b73f46a9a1..164c5f49c1 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