From f7e7db21cabb47d15dd3768e9f37fd1e60344ae0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: bluhm <bluhm@openbsd.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 08:33:25 +0000
Subject: Document how syslogd(8) escapes characters in log lines. input jmc@;
 OK sthen@

---
 usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'usr.sbin/syslogd')

diff --git a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
index d5fa23570f7..f31446f0f83 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: syslogd.8,v 1.59 2018/09/02 14:32:12 bluhm Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: syslogd.8,v 1.60 2018/09/27 08:33:25 bluhm Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1986, 1991, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\"     from: @(#)syslogd.8	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
 .\"	$NetBSD: syslogd.8,v 1.3 1996/01/02 17:41:48 perry Exp $
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 2 2018 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: September 27 2018 $
 .Dt SYSLOGD 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -225,6 +225,9 @@ and from
 The message sent to
 .Nm
 should consist of a single line.
+Embedded new line characters are converted to spaces;
+binary data is encoded by
+.Xr vis 3 .
 The message can contain a priority code, which should be a preceding
 decimal number in angle braces, for example,
 .Dq <5> .
-- 
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