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Description of problem:
Many of the kickstart options are missing BNF notation of syntax. For example, the iscsi, logging and monitor keywords do not have BNFs. This is inconsistent with the rest of the section.
How reproducible:
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Actual results:
The text from the "logging" section, for example:
logging (optional)
This command controls the error logging of anaconda during installation. It has no effect on the installed system.
--host= — Send logging information to the given remote host, which must be running a syslogd process configured to accept remote logging.
--port= — If the remote syslogd process uses a port other than the default, it may be specified with this option.
--level= — One of debug, info, warning, error, or critical.
Specify the minimum level of messages that appear on tty3. All messages will still be sent to the log file regardless of this level, however.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Expected results:
logging [--host=<host>] [--port=<port>] [--level= "debug"|"info" ]
( :) The BNF above is not "correct" either )
Additional info:
Thanks very much for reporting this. I can certainly see the inconsistency.
For the 6.4 documentation, I've added BNF notation to the three you've mentioned: iscsi, monitor, and logging, especially because they were the three most in need of tidying up (iscsi in particular).
I can see there are a few other candidates, and I will fix them up as time commitments allow.
Here's the new notation I've added:
iscsi --ipaddr=<ipaddr> [options]
logging [--host=<host>] [--port=<port>] [--level=debug|info|error|critical]
monitor --monitor=<monitorname>|--hsync|vsync=<frequency> [--noprobe]