Browse Source

mention a recommended log level in the man page

svn:r5730
Roger Dingledine 18 years ago
parent
commit
54f72cd812
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 3 1
      doc/tor.1.in

+ 3 - 1
doc/tor.1.in

@@ -139,7 +139,9 @@ seconds of idleness. (Default: 5 minutes)
 Send all messages between \fIminSeverity\fR and \fImaxSeverity\fR to
 the standard output stream, the standard error stream, or to the system
 log. (The "syslog" value is only supported on Unix.)  Recognized
-severity levels are debug, info, notice, warn, and err.  If only one
+severity levels are debug, info, notice, warn, and err.  We advise using
+"notice" in most cases, since anything more verbose may provide sensitive
+information to an attacker who obtains the logs.  If only one
 severity level is given, all messages of that level or higher will be
 sent to the listed destination.
 .LP