Patch from Fillod Stephane:

  You will find in the attached file "syslog.patch" a patch which adds
  config options to set at compile time the size of the circular buffer,
  and some documentation update.


git-svn-id: svn://busybox.net/trunk/busybox@8129 69ca8d6d-28ef-0310-b511-8ec308f3f277

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/busybox.sgml b/docs/busybox.sgml
index 1d2e9268a..ac400c7c8 100644
--- a/docs/busybox.sgml
+++ b/docs/busybox.sgml
@@ -1976,6 +1976,38 @@
                 </para>
         </sect1>
 
+        <sect1 id="logread">
+            <title>logread</title>
+
+                <para>
+                Usage: logread [OPTION]...
+                </para>
+
+                <para>
+                Shows the messages from syslogd (using circular buffer).
+                </para>
+
+                <para>
+                Options:
+                </para>
+
+                <para>
+                <screen>
+                        -f      Output data as the log grows.
+                </screen>
+                </para>
+
+                <para>
+                Example:
+                </para>
+
+                <para>
+                <screen>
+                        $ logread
+                </screen>
+                </para>
+        </sect1>
+
         <sect1 id="ls">
             <title>ls</title>
 
@@ -3110,7 +3142,7 @@
                         -O FILE Use an alternate log file (default=/var/log/messages)
                         -R HOST[:PORT] Log remotely to IP or hostname on PORT (default PORT=514/UDP)
                         -L      Log locally as well as network logging (default is network only)
-                        -C      Log to a circular buffer. Read this buffer using 'logread'
+                        -C [size(KiB)] Log to a circular buffer. Read this buffer using 'logread'
                 </screen>
                 </para>