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@@ -147,7 +147,10 @@ several possible determinations for logging information, all of which can be
enabled or disabled independently:
console - goes to stdout
+ syslog - broadcast RFC 3164 messages to syslog servers on UDP port 514
+The syslog driver sends the value of environmental variable 'log_hostname' as
+HOSTNAME if available.
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