On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 01:59:42AM +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote: > I will split this diff into smaller parts to make review and > discussion easier.
Document square brackets for IPv6 addresses. From FreeBSD. Index: usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5,v retrieving revision 1.24 diff -u -p -r1.24 syslog.conf.5 --- usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 20 Jan 2014 05:07:48 -0000 1.24 +++ usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5 20 Aug 2014 23:36:16 -0000 @@ -220,6 +220,13 @@ program on the named host. A port number may be optionally specified using the .Ar host:port syntax. +IPv6 addresses can be used by surrounding the address portion with +square brackets +.Po +.Ql [\& +and +.Ql ]\& +.Pc . .It A comma separated list of users. Selected messages are written to those users
