>Number:         32578
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       syslogd.8 does not have a reference to the appropriate RFC (3164)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jan 20 09:30:00 +0000 2006
>Originator:     Pavel Cahyna
>Release:        NetBSD 3.0_RC5
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD beta 3.0_RC5 NetBSD 3.0_RC5 (EV56) #3: Mon Dec 12 20:28:20 CET 2005 pavel@beta:/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/EV56 alpha
Architecture: alpha
Machine: alpha
>Description:
RFC 3164 has a detailed description of the BSD syslog message format,
so the man page should have a reference to it.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Index: syslogd.8
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RCS file: /home/pavel/cvs/src/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8,v
retrieving revision 1.37
diff -u -u -r1.37 syslogd.8
--- syslogd.8	19 Nov 2004 18:48:29 -0000	1.37
+++ syslogd.8	7 Jan 2006 14:25:38 -0000
@@ -208,6 +221,7 @@
 This priority code should map into the priorities defined in the
 include file
 .Aq Pa sys/syslog.h .
+See RFC 3164 for detailed description of the message format.
 .Pp
 Messages from the local kernel that are not tagged with a priority code
 receive the default facility
@@ -238,6 +252,12 @@
 .Xr services 5 ,
 .Xr syslog.conf 5 ,
 .Xr newsyslog 8
+.Rs
+.%R RFC
+.%N 3164
+.%D August 2001
+.%T The BSD syslog Protocol
+.Re
 .Sh HISTORY
 The
 .Nm