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        href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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`xsltproc -''-nonet \
          -''-param man.charmap.use.subset "0" \
          -''-param make.year.ranges "1" \
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          /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/manpages/docbook.xsl \
          manpage.xml'

A manual page <package>.<section> will be generated. You may view the
manual page with: nroff -man <package>.<section> | less'. A typical entry
in a Makefile or Makefile.am is:

DB2MAN = /usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/xsl/nwalsh/manpages/docbook.xsl
XP     = xsltproc -''-nonet -''-param man.charmap.use.subset "0"

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The xsltproc binary is found in the xsltproc package. The XSL files are in
docbook-xsl. A description of the parameters you can use can be found in the
docbook-xsl-doc-* packages. Please remember that if you create the nroff
version in one of the debian/rules file targets (such as build), you will need
to include xsltproc and docbook-xsl in your Build-Depends control field.
Alternatively use the xmlto command/package. That will also automatically
pull in xsltproc and docbook-xsl.

Notes for using docbook2x: docbook2x-man does not automatically create the
AUTHOR(S) and COPYRIGHT sections. In this case, please add them manually as
<refsect1> ... </refsect1>.

To disable the automatic creation of the AUTHOR(S) and COPYRIGHT sections
read /usr/share/doc/docbook-xsl/doc/manpages/authors.html. This file can be
found in the docbook-xsl-doc-html package.

Validation can be done using: `xmllint -''-noout -''-valid manpage.xml`

General documentation about man-pages and man-page-formatting:
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  <!-- Fill in your name for FIRSTNAME and SURNAME. -->
  <!ENTITY dhfirstname "David">
  <!ENTITY dhsurname   "Paleino">
  <!-- dhusername could also be set to "&firstname; &surname;". -->  
  <!ENTITY dhusername  "David Paleino">
  <!ENTITY dhemail     "d.paleino@gmail.com">
  <!-- SECTION should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection other parameters are
       allowed: see man(7), man(1) and
       http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Man-Page/q2.html. -->
  <!ENTITY dhsection   "1">
  <!-- TITLE should be something like "User commands" or similar (see
       http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Man-Page/q2.html). -->
  <!ENTITY dhtitle     "Syslog-Summary User Manual">
  <!ENTITY dhucpackage "SYSLOG-SUMMARY">
  <!ENTITY dhpackage   "syslog-summary">
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    <title>&dhtitle;</title>
    <productname>&dhpackage;</productname>
    <authorgroup>
      <author>
       <firstname>Lars</firstname>
        <surname>Wirzenius</surname>
        <contrib>Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.</contrib>
        <contrib>Wrote the first version of &dhpackage;.</contrib>
        <contrib>Maintained the Debian package from 1998 to 2000.</contrib>
        <address>
          <email>liw@iki.fi</email>
        </address>
      </author>
      <author>
        <firstname>Tommi</firstname>
        <surname>Virtanen</surname>
        <contrib>Maintained the package from 2001 to early 2008.</contrib>
        <address>
          <email>tv@debian.org</email>
        </address>
      </author>
      <author>
        <firstname>David</firstname>
        <surname>Paleino</surname>
        <contrib>Maintains the package since early 2008.</contrib>
        <address>
          <email>d.paleino@gmail.com</email>
        </address>
      </author>
    </authorgroup>
    <copyright>
      <year>2008</year>
      <holder>David Paleino</holder>
    </copyright>
    <copyright>
      <year>2001</year>
      <year>2002</year>
      <year>2003</year>
      <year>2004</year>
      <year>2005</year>
      <year>2006</year>
      <year>2007</year>
      <holder>Tommi Virtanen</holder>
    </copyright>
    <copyright>
      <year>1998</year>
      <year>1999</year>
      <year>2000</year>
      <holder>Lars Wirzenius</holder>
    </copyright>
    <legalnotice>
      <para>This manual page was written for the Debian system
        (but may be used by others).</para>
      <para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
        document under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
        Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by
        the Free Software Foundation.</para>
      <para>On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
        License can be found in
	<filename>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL</filename>.</para>
    </legalnotice>
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  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>&dhucpackage;</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>&dhsection;</manvolnum>
  </refmeta>
  <refnamediv>
    <refname>&dhpackage;</refname>
    <refpurpose>summarize the contents of a syslog log file</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>
  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis>
      <command>&dhpackage;</command>
      <!-- These are several examples, how syntaxes could look -->
      <arg choice="opt">
        <group choice="plain">
          <arg choice="plain"><option>-s</option></arg>
          <arg choice="plain"><option>--state=</option></arg>
        </group>
        <replaceable class="option">filename</replaceable>
      </arg>
      <arg choice="opt">
        <group choice="plain">
          <arg choice="plain"><option>-i</option></arg>
          <arg choice="plain"><option>--ignore=</option></arg>
        </group>
        <replaceable class="option">filename</replaceable>
      </arg>
      <arg choice="opt">
        <group choice="plain">
          <arg choice="plain"><option>-d</option></arg>
          <arg choice="plain"><option>--debug</option></arg>
        </group>
      </arg>
      <arg choice="opt">
        <group choice="plain">
          <arg choice="plain"><option>-r</option></arg>
          <arg choice="plain"><option>--repeat</option></arg>
        </group>
      </arg>
      <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>logfile</replaceable></arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
    <cmdsynopsis>
      <command>&dhpackage;</command>
      <!-- Normally the help and version options make the programs stop
           right after outputting the requested information. -->
      <arg choice="opt">
        <group choice="plain">
          <arg choice="plain"><option>-h</option></arg>
          <arg choice="plain"><option>--help</option></arg>
        </group>
      </arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
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  <refsect1 id="description">
    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
    <para>This manual page documents briefly the
      <command>&dhpackage;</command> command.</para>
    <para><command>&dhpackage;</command> summarizes the contents of log files
    via the
    <citerefentry>
      <refentrytitle>syslog</refentrytitle>
      <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
    </citerefentry>
    service, by displaying each unique (except for the time) line once, and also
    the number of times such a line occurs in the input. The lines are displayed
    in the order they occur in the input.</para>
  </refsect1>
  <refsect1 id="options">
    <title>OPTIONS</title>
    <variablelist>
      <!-- Use the variablelist.term.separator and the
           variablelist.term.break.after parameters to
           control the term elements. -->
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-i <replaceable>filename</replaceable></option></term>
        <term><option>--ignore=<replaceable>filename</replaceable></option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Read regular expressions from <replaceable>filename</replaceable>
          and ignore lines in the logfiles that match them.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-s <replaceable>filename</replaceable></option></term>
        <term><option>--state=<replaceable>filename</replaceable></option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Read state information from <replaceable>filename</replaceable>.
          The state contains information about the already reported parts of a log
          file, and prevents <command>syslog-summary</command> from reporting the
          same things many times. This is useful when <command>syslog-summary</command>
          is run from <command>crontab</command> every hour. The file is created,
          if it doesn't exist already.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-r</option></term>
        <term><option>--repeat</option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Merge "last message repeated * times" lines with the repeated
          event.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-d</option></term>
        <term><option>--debug</option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Enable verbose messages when errors occur (i.e. "debug mode").</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>-h</option></term>
        <term><option>--help</option></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Show summary of options.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>
  <refsect1 id="files">
    <title>FILES</title>
    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><filename>/etc/syslog-summary/ignore.rules</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Default ignore.rules file with default regular expressions.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>
  <refsect1 id="diagnostics">
    <title>DIAGNOSTICS</title>
    <para>When reporting a bug, please run <command>syslog-summary</command>
    with the <option>-d</option> (or <option>--debug</option>) flag enabled.</para>
    <para><command>&dhpackage;</command> provides some return codes, that can
      be used in scripts:</para>
    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Code</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Diagnostic</segtitle>
      <seglistitem>
        <seg><errorcode>0</errorcode></seg>
        <seg>Program exited successfully.</seg>
      </seglistitem>
      <seglistitem>
        <seg><errorcode>1</errorcode></seg>
        <seg>Something went wrong, please run the program with the debug messages enabled.</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>
  </refsect1>
</refentry>