Re: [HACKERS] Syslog and pg_options (for RPMs)

[Dominic J. Eidson]

On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nathan Myers) writes:
> > The Linux page says just:
> >   HISTORY
> >        A syslog function call appeared in BSD 4.2.
> > Normally if there's a standard they mention it.
> 
> Yes, the HP man pages also trace it to BSD.  I'm surprised syslog
> (apparently) hasn't made it into any formal standard.

"man syslog" shows the above, "man logger" however, shows this:

STANDARDS
     The logger command is expected to be IEEE Std1003.2 (``POSIX'') compati-
     ble.


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