Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> What versions of syslog fsync, and where is the syslog.conf option. I
> don't see it on FreeBSD or Linux.
It's a per-output-file option. My Linux manpage for syslogd quoth
The - may only be used to prefix a filename if you want to omit sync'ing the file after every write to it.
I believe this notation is inherited from BSD. I don't see anything
about it in the HPUX man page for syslogd, though.
regards, tom lane