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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.\" the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is
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.\" provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
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.\"
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.Dd March 02, 2003
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.Dd March 08, 2003
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.Dt NEWSYSLOG 8
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.It Sy N
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indicates that there is no process which needs to be signalled
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when this log file is rotated.
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.It Sy U
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indicates that the file specified by
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.Ar path_to_pid_file
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will contain the id for a process group, instead of a process.
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This option also requires that the first line in that file must
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be a negative value, to distinguish it from a value for a
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process id.
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.It Sy W
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if used with the
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.Sy Z
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.El
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.It Ar path_to_pid_file
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This optional field specifies the file name to read to find the daemon
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process id.
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process id, or to find a process group id if the
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.Sy U
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flag was specified.
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If this field is present, a
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.Ar signal_number
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is sent the process id contained in this file.
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This field must start with "/" in order to be recognized
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properly.
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.It Ar signal_number
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This optional field specifies
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the signal number will be sent to the daemon process.
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By default
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a SIGHUP will be sent.
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This optional field specifies the signal number that will be sent
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to the daemon process (or to all processes in a process group, if
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the
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.Sy U
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flag was specified).
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If this field is not present, then a SIGHUP signal will be sent.
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.El
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.Sh OPTIONS
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The following options can be used with
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