bin/171580: [bin] syslogd: Document IPv6 address usage

[Bryan Drewery]

>Number:         171580
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       [bin] syslogd: Document IPv6 address usage
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Keywords:       
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>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Sep 12 16:40:01 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Bryan Drewery
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE i386
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>Environment:

	
>Description:
	bin/150530 added support for IPv6 address targets when using '[]'. This was committed in r240389. Attached patch documents the feature.
>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:

	

--- patch-syslogd-ipv6.txt begins here ---
# svn status
M       usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5

Index: usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5
===================================================================
--- usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5	(revision 240408)
+++ usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5	(working copy)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"     @(#)syslog.conf.5	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd December 23, 2008
+.Dd September 12, 2012
 .Dt SYSLOG.CONF 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -347,6 +347,10 @@
 .Pq Ql :\&
 then that port will be used as the destination port
 rather than the usual syslog port.
+IPv6 addresses can be used if surrounded by
+.Pq Ql [\&
+and
+.Pq Ql ]\& .
 .It
 A comma separated list of users.
 Selected messages are written to those users
--- patch-syslogd-ipv6.txt ends here ---


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