[systemd-commits] man/systemd.journal-fields.xml

Lennart Poettering lennart at kemper.freedesktop.org
Mon Mar 24 16:11:27 PDT 2014


 man/systemd.journal-fields.xml |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

New commits:
commit d2753d220044892495769f7f9fca297cf86d01b9
Author: Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>
Date:   Tue Mar 25 00:10:41 2014 +0100

    man: explain that the journal field SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER is usually derived from program_invocation_short_name

diff --git a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
index d77e6eb..6eeb6e3 100644
--- a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
@@ -156,7 +156,10 @@
                                         (formatted as decimal string),
                                         the identifier string
                                         (i.e. "tag"), and the client
-                                        PID.</para>
+                                        PID. (Note that the tag is
+                                        usually derived from glibc's
+                                        <varname>program_invocation_short_name</varname>
+                                        variable, see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>program_invocation_short_name</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.)</para>
                                 </listitem>
 
                         </varlistentry>



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