From cf99b65932a4bfc41dc132afbd5d0b804634429d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vinay Sajip Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 07:06:55 +0000 Subject: Updated documentation for SysLogHandler (#1720726). --- Doc/lib/liblogging.tex | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/lib/liblogging.tex b/Doc/lib/liblogging.tex index 5783cbf..c5c3e4e 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/liblogging.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/liblogging.tex @@ -1208,8 +1208,11 @@ Returns a new instance of the \class{SysLogHandler} class intended to communicate with a remote \UNIX{} machine whose address is given by \var{address} in the form of a \code{(\var{host}, \var{port})} tuple. If \var{address} is not specified, \code{('localhost', 514)} is -used. The address is used to open a UDP socket. If \var{facility} is -not specified, \constant{LOG_USER} is used. +used. The address is used to open a UDP socket. An alternative to providing +a \code{(\var{host}, \var{port})} tuple is providing an address as a string, +for example "/dev/log". In this case, a Unix domain socket is used to send +the message to the syslog. If \var{facility} is not specified, +\constant{LOG_USER} is used. \end{classdesc} \begin{methoddesc}{close}{} -- cgit v0.12