From: Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 07:21:19 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Updated documentation for SysLogHandler (#1720726).
X-Git-Tag: v2.5.2c1~286
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=425c614b6ec140fa94afbe8acedd899e1cac95d3;p=python

Updated documentation for SysLogHandler (#1720726).
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/liblogging.tex b/Doc/lib/liblogging.tex
index 48fd425fbe..510a844c94 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/liblogging.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/liblogging.tex
@@ -1175,8 +1175,11 @@ 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}{}