From owner-freebsd-security Wed Oct 14 20:11:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA21474 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 20:11:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA21469 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 20:11:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkb@shell6.ba.best.com) Received: (from jkb@localhost) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.0/8.9.0/best.sh) id UAA28883; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 20:10:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19981014201025.A27450@best.com> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 20:10:25 -0700 From: "Jan B. Koum " To: Sheldon Hearn , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslog.conf comment about tabs References: <20150.908397220@iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <20150.908397220@iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:33:40PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 10:33:40PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > Hi folks, > > It's a pity that, after all the discussion about syslog's > differentiation between tabs and spaces, nothing was actually done about > it. This is especially sad given that 3.0-RELEASE is about to be > snapped. > > When someone with commit privs has some time (does this sound like > millenium hype? ;) it'd be great to see PR8162 making it into the > repository. It suggests a comment for etc/syslog.conf which should > reduce the number of questions syslog's behaviour generates. Perhaps > this will make it into 3.1. > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > > PS: I do understand that people have been incredibly busy lately. It's > just frustrating to see something like this overlooked prior to the > release of a CD that's going to generate a huge number of questions as > it is. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message I honestly fail to see why this patch NEEDS to be in FreeBSD? I mean - you have the source and you have the patch .. this is why FreeBSD ships with the source. What's next? Making shells case insensitive? :P -- Yan I don't have the password .... + Jan Koum But the path is chainlinked .. | Spelled Jan, pronounced Yan. There. So if you've got the time .... | Web: http://www.best.com/~jkb Set the tone to sync ......... + OS: http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message