Why does Karmic not provide a syslog.conf manpage?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Detlef Lechner wrote:
> Hello,
> Why does Karmic not provide a syslog.conf manpage although it writes 
> syslogs?
> '~$ man syslog.conf; No manual entry for syslog.conf'.
> The Internet does provide one, though: 
> http://linux.die.net/man/5/syslog.conf.

It's actually available from two packages.  Here's how I figured that out:

man 5 syslog.conf
man: can't resolve /usr/share/man/man5/syslog.conf.5.gz: No such file or
directory
No manual entry for syslog.conf in section 5

apt-file update

apt-file search /usr/share/man/man5/syslog.conf.5.gz

inetutils-syslogd: /usr/share/man/man5/syslog.conf.5.gz
sysklogd: /usr/share/man/man5/syslog.conf.5.gz

You probably only want one of these.

Matthew Flaschen