default syslog priority discrepancy in daemon(8) man page

Ate Wijma ajwijma at hotmail.com
Thu Mar 14 13:48:13 UTC 2019


L.S.

In the daemon(8) man page I noticed a discrepancy in the default syslog priority as explained with the command line options. The -S (upper case s) option states that the default priority is notice, and the -s (lower case s) says info. The latter is wrong, i.e. the correct default syslog priority is notice.

>From the daemon(8) man page:

-S           Enable syslog output.  This is implicitly applied if other syslog
             parameters are provided.  The default values are daemon, notice,
             and daemon for facility, priority, and tag, respectively.

...


-s      syslog_priority
             These priorities are accepted: emerg, alert, crit, err, warning,
             notice, info, and debug.  The default is info.

Best regards,

Ate Wijma


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