Leonardo Ferreira da Silva Boiko lets it be known that syslogd.conf may not exist on certain systems. Referencing that manpage is not a good idea in any case, I believe, since the strings that are accepted are defined by iptables and not a syslog implementation. References: http://bugs.debian.org/567564 Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx> --- extensions/libip6t_LOG.man | 5 ++++- extensions/libipt_LOG.man | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/extensions/libip6t_LOG.man b/extensions/libip6t_LOG.man index b7803fe..0a48640 100644 --- a/extensions/libip6t_LOG.man +++ b/extensions/libip6t_LOG.man @@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ separate rules with the same matching criteria, first using target LOG then DROP (or REJECT). .TP \fB\-\-log\-level\fP \fIlevel\fP -Level of logging (numeric or see \fIsyslog.conf\fP(5)). +Level of logging, which can be (system-specific) numeric or a mnemonic. +Possible values are (in decreasing order of priority): \fBemerg\fP, +\fBalert\fP, \fBcrit\fP, \fBerror\fP, \fBwarning\fP, \fBnotice\fP, \fBinfo\fP +or \fBdebug\fP. .TP \fB\-\-log\-prefix\fP \fIprefix\fP Prefix log messages with the specified prefix; up to 29 letters long, diff --git a/extensions/libipt_LOG.man b/extensions/libipt_LOG.man index 47c35e0..f2574f8 100644 --- a/extensions/libipt_LOG.man +++ b/extensions/libipt_LOG.man @@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ separate rules with the same matching criteria, first using target LOG then DROP (or REJECT). .TP \fB\-\-log\-level\fP \fIlevel\fP -Level of logging (numeric or see \fIsyslog.conf\fP(5)). +Level of logging, which can be (system-specific) numeric or a mnemonic. +Possible values are (in decreasing order of priority): \fBemerg\fP, +\fBalert\fP, \fBcrit\fP, \fBerror\fP, \fBwarning\fP, \fBnotice\fP, \fBinfo\fP +or \fBdebug\fP. .TP \fB\-\-log\-prefix\fP \fIprefix\fP Prefix log messages with the specified prefix; up to 29 letters long, -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html