From owner-freebsd-security Tue Oct 6 20:36:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA20703 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 20:36:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA20640 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 20:36:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id VAA19211; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 21:36:22 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19981006213234.04cd1600@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 21:35:12 -0600 To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" , Dan Busarow , Studded From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: The necessary steps for logging (the problem is fixed) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981006205648.006e987c@207.227.119.2> References: <361A4F37.141BAE11@dal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:56 PM 10/6/98 -0500, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: >You are refering to the checking, but the original /etc/crontab's for 2.2.7 >and the 9/30 beta are mostly spaces, but the do mix tabs and spaces on the >LHS, assuming you are referring in this case to only the time/date fields. > >In 2.2.7 (v1.13) even has a tab between adjkerntz and the -a flag that the >beta (v.1.18) did not. A lot of the Vixie stuff (including his cron and BIND) treats all whitespace the same, regardless of whether you use spaces or tabs. So does Apache. So do a whole bunch of other things. There's also the problem that some editors expand tabs to spaces. In the name of consistency, I'd like to see FreeBSD (and, for that matter, ALL the BSDs) treat tabs and spaces the same, letting you quote spaces with a backslash (or quotes surrounding a string) if you want to embed them. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message