manuals: System message vs kernel message

Wordsmith mentions throughout the manual of syslog and dmesg, to clearly
differentiate them in an externally consisteny way, increasing operator
onboarding speed and elegance.

The daemon that handles general system messages, syslog, describes them
as "system messages", and "messages" is the standard filename. Rewrite
syslog related manual titles to align search results with this, and hier
entries to align the index. Use care to maintain keywords and not add
extra lines. Newsyslog trades "maintain" with "rotate" for visibility.

MFC after:	3 days
Reviewed by:	markj
Closes:		https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/2067
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Alexander Ziaee
2026-03-08 03:23:17 -04:00
parent 1e2c9bcc4e
commit 04d58d529a
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@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ Explicitly distrusted certificates; see
kernel state defaults; see
.Xr sysctl.conf 5
.It Pa syslog.conf
system log configuration
system message log configuration
.It Pa ttys
tty creation configuration; see
.Xr getty 8
@@ -851,7 +851,7 @@ default log for system daemons
.It Pa devd.log
default log for device state change daemon
.It Pa dmesg.today
system message buffer log, rotates to
kernel message buffer log, rotates to
.Pa dmesg.yesterday
.It Pa debug.log
undiscarded debug syslog messages
@@ -862,7 +862,7 @@ logs for the line printer spooler daemon; see
.Xr sendmail 8
log, rotates and compresses to maillog.0.bz2
.It Pa messages
general system log; see
general system message log; see
.Xr syslogd 8
.It Pa mount.today
currently loaded