logger man page: update --size doc

now we have strict sizes

Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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Rainer Gerhards 2015-03-07 12:04:43 +01:00 committed by Karel Zak
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@ -97,10 +97,13 @@ Most receivers accept larger than 1KiB message over any type of syslog
protocol. As such, the \fB\-\-size\fR option affects logger in
all cases (not only when \fB\-\-rfc5424\fR was used).
Note: the message size limit is not totally strict. It limits only
the user data, the size of the syslog header is not considered. While
this can lead to some truncation at the receiver level, a consistent limit
based on the user data size is generally wanted.
Note: the message size limit limits the overall message size, including
the syslog header. Header sizes vary depending on options selected and hostname
length. As a rule of thumb, headers are usually not longer than 50 to 80
characters. When selecting maximum message size, it is important to ensure
that the receiver supports the max size as well, otherwise messages may
become truncated. Again, as a rule of thumb two to four KiB message size
should generally be OK, whereas anything larger should be verified to work.
.TP
.BR \-n , " \-\-server " \fIserver