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From e639faaa6f3fca2a8ac00c7bc3e28f8ef25fa39e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 00:10:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] man: explain that the journal field SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER is
 usually derived from program_invocation_short_name

(cherry picked from commit d2753d220044892495769f7f9fca297cf86d01b9)
(cherry picked from commit 265f023d76ad0be8cb830e8ee2c329e4ef8f1d40)
---
 man/systemd.journal-fields.xml | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
index b492aae0ae..42d209bf9e 100644
--- a/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
+++ b/man/systemd.journal-fields.xml
@@ -156,7 +156,10 @@
                                         (formatted as decimal string),
                                         the identifier string
                                         (i.e. "tag"), and the client
-                                        PID.</para>
+                                        PID. (Note that the tag is
+                                        usually derived from glibc's
+                                        <varname>program_invocation_short_name</varname>
+                                        variable, see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>program_invocation_short_name</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>.)</para>
                                 </listitem>
 
                         </varlistentry>