On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 01:39:55AM +0200, Alexander Bluhm wrote:
> 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
>
it'd be simpler to use just
...
square brackets
.Qq [] .
jmc
