.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1986, 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
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.Op Fl m Ar mark_interval
reads and logs messages to the system console, log files, other
machines and/or users as specified by its configuration file.
The options are as follows:
Specify the pathname of an alternate configuration file;
Select the number of minutes between ``mark'' messages;
the default is 20 minutes.
Specify the pathname of an alternate log socket;
reads its configuration file when it starts up and whenever it
receives a hangup signal.
For information on the format of the configuration file,
from an Internet domain socket specified in
and from the special device
(to read kernel messages).
.Pa /var/run/syslog.pid ,
This can be used to kill or reconfigure
should consist of a single line.
The message can contain a priority code, which should be a preceding
decimal number in angle braces, for example,
This priority code should map into the priorities defined in the
.Bl -tag -width /var/run/syslog.pid -compact
.It Pa /var/run/syslog.pid
The process id of current
domain datagram log socket.