On Tue, 17 Mar 2015, Raphael Abreu wrote:
Hello everyone,
This is the first time I am sumbitting an e-mail to this list so sorry if I
break any protocols.
I would like to propose an improvement to the LOGGER(1) entry:
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=logger%281%29
Where it reads:
*-f* *file*
Log the specified file.
For clarification it should read:
*-f* *file*
Log the contents of specified file. This option cannot be
combined with a command-line message.
I struggled for some time with this parameter and only understood what was
going on after reading a GNU version:
http://praxis.edoceo.com/man/1/LOGGER
Searching on stackexchange and other sites I could see that mistaking the
meaning of this flag is quite common.
I hope this can be a positve contribuition.
The man page for FreeBSD 11 already has a better description, although
it does not describe the behavior when both -f and a message are given.
Even if the copyright of the Linux man page allowed us to copy it
directly, it does not really describe what happens when both -f and a
message are given. Instead, I have committed this original update:
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/logger/logger.1?r1=280336&r2=280335&pathrev=280336
This was committed to -CURRENT, and will be MFCed into FreeBSD 10-STABLE
in a week or so.
Thanks!
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