Bug 171580

Summary: syslogd: Document IPv6 address usage
Product: Documentation Reporter: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Eitan Adler <eadler>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: bapt
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   
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patch-syslogd-ipv6.txt none

Description Bryan Drewery freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2012-09-12 17:40:01 UTC
	bin/150530 added support for IPv6 address targets when using '[]'. This was committed in r240389. Attached patch documents the feature.
Comment 1 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2012-09-12 17:41:57 UTC
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->eadler

fix synopsis & take
Comment 2 dfilter service freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2012-09-12 17:58:55 UTC
Author: eadler
Date: Wed Sep 12 16:58:42 2012
New Revision: 240409
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/240409

Log:
  Add documentation for IPv6 support
  
  PR:		docs/171580
  Submitted by:	bdrewery
  Reviewed by:	wblock
  Approved by:	gjb
  MFC after:	1 month
  X-MFC-With:	r240389

Modified:
  head/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5

Modified: head/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5	Wed Sep 12 16:01:48 2012	(r240408)
+++ head/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslog.conf.5	Wed Sep 12 16:58:42 2012	(r240409)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"     @(#)syslog.conf.5	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd December 23, 2008
+.Dd September 12, 2012
 .Dt SYSLOG.CONF 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -347,6 +347,14 @@ If a port number is added after a colon
 .Pq Ql :\&
 then that port will be used as the destination port
 rather than the usual syslog port.
+IPv6 addresses can be used
+by surrounding the address portion with
+square brackets
+.Po
+.Ql [\&
+and
+.Ql ]\&
+.Pc .
 .It
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Comment 3 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2012-10-12 03:35:20 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

committed