What do hyphens in rsyslog.conf in front of some filenames mean ?

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Issue

  • What do hyphens in rsyslog.conf in front of some filenames mean ?
mail.*                                                  -/var/log/maillog

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • rsyslog

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