-q option doesn't do what it says in the man page?

M.C. Vernon mcv21 at cus.cam.ac.uk
Thu Aug 23 23:18:10 EST 2001


On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Markus Friedl wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:40:06PM +0200, Markus Friedl wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 01:20:04AM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> > > typedef enum {
> > >         SYSLOG_LEVEL_QUIET,
> > >         SYSLOG_LEVEL_FATAL,
> 
> hm, i'm not 100% sure, the sshd manpage says with -q:
> 
> Nothing is sent to the system log.  
> 
> so, it's probably better to fix the ssh.1 manpage...

I'm not convinced, actually; I think having -q say everything except fatal
messages is more useful that ignoring fatal messages as well. Having ssh
fail silently is probably a bad thing in most cases...

Matthew 

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