=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/src/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8,v retrieving revision 1.19 retrieving revision 1.20 diff -u -r1.19 -r1.20 --- src/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8 2000/06/02 19:39:33 1.19 +++ src/usr.bin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8 2001/03/01 20:34:10 1.20 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: newsyslog.8,v 1.19 2000/06/02 19:39:33 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: newsyslog.8,v 1.20 2001/03/01 20:34:10 aaron Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1997, Jason Downs. All rights reserved. .\" @@ -56,8 +56,8 @@ .Nd maintain system log files to manageable sizes .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm newsyslog -.Op Fl vmnr -.Op Fl f Ar configuration file +.Op Fl mnrv +.Op Fl f Ar config_file .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm is a program that should be scheduled to run periodically by @@ -75,21 +75,16 @@ has the next to last period's logs in it, and so on, up to a user-specified number of archived logs. -Optionally the archived logs can be compressed to save -space. +Optionally the archived logs can be compressed to save space. .Pp The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width Ds -.It Fl f Ar config-file -Use -.Ar config-file -instead of -.Pa /etc/newsyslog.conf -for the configuration file. -.It Fl v -Be verbose. -In this mode it will print out each log and its -reasons for either trimming that log or skipping it. +.It Fl m +Monitoring mode; only entries marked with an +.Sq M +in flags are processed, +and notifications sent if any have changed. +Without this option, monitored entries are not processed. .It Fl n Do not trim the logs, but instead print out what would be done if this option were not specified. @@ -104,12 +99,16 @@ signal to .Xr syslogd 8 , so this option should only be used in debugging. -.It Fl m -Monitoring mode; only entries marked with an -.Sq M -in flags are processed, -and notifications sent if any have changed. -Without this option, monitored entries are not processed. +.It Fl v +Be verbose. +In this mode it will print out each log and its +reasons for either trimming that log or skipping it. +.It Fl f Ar config_file +Use +.Ar config_file +instead of +.Pa /etc/newsyslog.conf +for the configuration file. .El .Pp A log can be archived because of two reasons.