Appropriate tags for service names and syslog facilties?

[Tammy Fox]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 22:15, Mike MacCana wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Tammy Fox wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 23:47, Mike MacCana wrote:
> >
> > > In each of the tutorials I'm writing, if there's an appropriate Red Hat
> > > GUI config tool for the service, I provide instructions on installing,
> > > configuring, enabling and starting the service graphically (as well as the
> > > standard command line method provided for all services).
> > >
> > > Hence you end up with something like:
> > >
> > > <para>
> > > Start the <command>httpd</command> service and set it to start by default.
> > > <guimenu>Main Menu</guimenu> =>
> > >  <guimenuitem>System Settings</guimenuitem> =>
> > > <guimenuitem>Services</guimenuitem>, select the <command>httpd</command> service
> > > and click Start to start the service (use Restart if it is already running).
> > > </para>
> > >
> >
> > In this instance, the menu item is HTTP and should be tagged as a
> > guimenuitem. You are referring to the name of the menu item, not the
> > actual service.
> 
> That's correct - I should have used a better example:
> 
> 'The service name for Samba is smb'
> 
> Here we're clearly not referring to command line applications or graphical
> interfaces - but simply telling people what the service for a particular
> application is.
> 
> I;'m not really too fussed about this, but I hope you can see the point
> that it would be nice to have a specific markup for a service.
> 
> Mike

Sure. I agreed that we need a service tag as well as many others such as
directive for configuration file options as opposed to the option tag
which is only supposed to be used for options to command line utilities.

Tammy