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[or-cvs] mention a recommended log level in the man page



Update of /home2/or/cvsroot/tor/doc
In directory moria:/home/arma/work/onion/cvs/tor/doc

Modified Files:
	tor.1.in 
Log Message:
mention a recommended log level in the man page


Index: tor.1.in
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RCS file: /home2/or/cvsroot/tor/doc/tor.1.in,v
retrieving revision 1.108
retrieving revision 1.109
diff -u -p -d -r1.108 -r1.109
--- tor.1.in	28 Dec 2005 09:13:02 -0000	1.108
+++ tor.1.in	5 Jan 2006 10:36:40 -0000	1.109
@@ -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.
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