Github user jerrypeng commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/1068#issuecomment-178962569
Well this only changes that config for the syslog appender. The syslog
appender writes data to a network socket. This doesn't change the other
appenders that will actually write to disk.
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