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

[Markus Friedl]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 02:18:10PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> 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...

sure, but consider how many people relay on sshd -q printing nothing to syslog?

hm.