From: deraadt <deraadt@openbsd.org>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 01:53:15 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: for the Nth time, the damn syslog socket is required
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for the Nth time, the damn syslog socket is required
---

diff --git a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
index 22d5fcd6592..04ce723ee89 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: syslogd.8,v 1.11 2000/03/19 17:57:16 aaron Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: syslogd.8,v 1.12 2000/04/16 01:53:15 deraadt Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1986, 1991, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -112,6 +112,14 @@ and from the special device
 (to read kernel messages).
 .Pp
 .Nm
+opens the above described socket whether or not it is
+running in secure mode.
+If
+.Nm
+is running in secure mode, all incoming data on this socket is discarded.
+The socket is required for sending forwarded messages.
+.Pp
+.Nm
 creates the file
 .Pa /var/run/syslog.pid ,
 and stores its process ID there.