Appropriate tags for service names and syslog facilties?

Tammy Fox tfox at redhat.com
Thu Feb 12 19:00:24 UTC 2004


That is my take on it as well:

http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/documentation-guide/s1-xml-tags-command.html

At the end of this page, I started a list of items that should be tagged
with the command tag, even though they aren't exactly commands.

HTH,
Tammy

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 08:05, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> I think you're looking for <command>. Since there's nothing more
> appropriate, that's currently used not just for non-GUI apps, but also
> configuration file options and daemons like services. I would expect for
> now that you should use it for syslog facilities as well. If anyone
> wants to differ, please feel free.
> 
> I do notice that a DocBook RFE at:
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=564776&group_id=21935&atid=384107
> suggests that the more proper way to do this is
> 
> <application class="daemon">syslogd</application>
> <application class="service">syslog</application>
> <application class="service">kern.*</application>
> 
> That was the end of 2002, but a *really* quick check of the DocBook book
> doesn't reveal anything more appropriate.
> 
> -- 
> Paul W. Frields, RHCE





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