svn commit: r363598 - head/usr.sbin/nologin

[Mateusz Piotrowski]

Hi,

On 7/27/20 7:17 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> On 7/27/20 6:41 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>>>> Author: 0mp (doc,ports committer)
>>>> Date: Mon Jul 27 10:45:47 2020
>>>> New Revision: 363598
>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/363598
>>>>
>>>> Log:
>>>>     nologin.8: Improve wording
>>> I disagree that this improves wording.  The norm of action for
>>> "logging" in Unix is to "write to syslog", not "log to syslog".
>> Hmm, I agree, but here it is "log using syslog".
> Please read syslog(3) it is rather consistent about using
> "write to syslog".  The action of calling syslog(3) is to
> "writes message to the system message logger."

Obviously, we write to syslog but from what I remember the reason why we decided to change the 
wording to "log using syscall" was that you don't write to the syslog(3) function, but you use it 
instead.

>
>> Have you got any idea how to further improve this sentence?
> No, but can we not degrade it?

Sure. Would you like me to just revert it?

Cheers,

Mateusz