From e3608b7813dc27e4682937b985e22113bdfe58f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:31:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Document the fact that syslogd(8) requires logs files to be
 created before it will start logging to them.

PR:		27088
Approved by:	des
MFC after:	10 days
---
 usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8 b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
index ff4bd3a1e8b..1f6b3a332a2 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.8
@@ -248,6 +248,12 @@ decimal number in angle braces, for example,
 This priority code should map into the priorities defined in the
 include file
 .Aq Pa sys/syslog.h .
+.Pp
+For security reasons,
+.Nm
+will not append to log files that do not exist;
+therefore, they must be created manually before running
+.Nm .
 .Sh FILES
 .Bl -tag -width /var/run/syslog.pid -compact
 .It Pa /etc/syslog.conf