Document support for the new 'U' flag, which was implemented back in March

as revision 1.64 of newsyslog.c.  I plan to MFC these changes next week.

MFC after:	1 week
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Garance A Drosehn 2003-04-24 20:50:01 +00:00
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.\" the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is
.\" provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
.\"
.Dd March 02, 2003
.Dd March 08, 2003
.Dt NEWSYSLOG 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -312,6 +312,13 @@ log file using
.It Sy N
indicates that there is no process which needs to be signalled
when this log file is rotated.
.It Sy U
indicates that the file specified by
.Ar path_to_pid_file
will contain the id for a process group, instead of a process.
This option also requires that the first line in that file must
be a negative value, to distinguish it from a value for a
process id.
.It Sy W
if used with the
.Sy Z
@ -341,7 +348,9 @@ field when you need to specify any of the following fields.
.El
.It Ar path_to_pid_file
This optional field specifies the file name to read to find the daemon
process id.
process id, or to find a process group id if the
.Sy U
flag was specified.
If this field is present, a
.Ar signal_number
is sent the process id contained in this file.
@ -354,10 +363,12 @@ flag has been specified.
This field must start with "/" in order to be recognized
properly.
.It Ar signal_number
This optional field specifies
the signal number will be sent to the daemon process.
By default
a SIGHUP will be sent.
This optional field specifies the signal number that will be sent
to the daemon process (or to all processes in a process group, if
the
.Sy U
flag was specified).
If this field is not present, then a SIGHUP signal will be sent.
.El
.Sh OPTIONS
The following options can be used with