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Manual pages: logger.1: minor formatting and typo fixes 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) 2020-07-24 12:06:14 +02:00 committed by Karel Zak
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@ -49,8 +49,10 @@ given either, then standard input is logged.
.TP
.BR \-d , " \-\-udp"
Use datagrams (UDP) only. By default the connection is tried to the
syslog port defined in /etc/services, which is often 514 .
.sp
syslog port defined in
.IR /etc/services ,
which is often 514.
.IP
See also \fB\-\-server\fR and \fB\-\-socket\fR to specify where to connect.
.TP
.BR \-e , " \-\-skip-empty"
@ -75,7 +77,9 @@ command's PID. The use of \fB\-\-id=$$\fR
(PPID) is recommended in scripts that send several messages.
Note that the system logging infrastructure (for example \fBsystemd\fR when
listening on /dev/log) may follow local socket credentials to overwrite the
listening on
.IR /dev/log )
may follow local socket credentials to overwrite the
PID specified in the message.
.BR logger (1)
is able to set those socket credentials to the given \fIid\fR, but only if you