From owner-freebsd-security Mon Oct 5 09:50:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA08807 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 09:50:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from emu.sourcee.com (emu.sourcee.com [199.201.159.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA08793 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 09:50:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nrice@emu.sourcee.com) Received: (from nrice@localhost) by emu.sourcee.com (8.8.8/8.8.3) id MAA22308; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 12:49:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19981005124924.A22282@emu.sourcee.com> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 12:49:24 -0400 From: Norman C Rice To: Brett Glass , "N. N.M" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The necessary steps for logging (the problem is fixed) References: <19981005075959.17004.qmail@hotmail.com> <4.1.19981005093222.041901f0@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981005093222.041901f0@mail.lariat.org>; from Brett Glass on Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 09:32:54AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 09:32:54AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > Both spaces and tabs should count as white space. > Should this be submitted as a bug? As the program works according to the documentation (man page), I don't consider this feature a bug. However, many people stumble over the whitespace issue so perhaps a parser enhancement should be considered. -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr. > --Brett > > At 12:59 AM 10/5/98 -0700, N. N.M wrote: > > >Dear Norman > > > >Thank you very much. The problem with logging is fixed! I did what you > >said: > > > >>I believe that this is because you used spaces to separate the > >>fields instead of the required tabs. > > > >>From syslog.conf man page (look at the last sentence): > > > >>The syslog.conf file is the configuration file for the syslogd(8) > >>program. It consists of blocks of lines separated by program > >>specifications, with each line containing two fields: the selector > >>field which specifies the types of messages and priorities to which > >>the line applies, and an action field which specifies the action to >be > >taken if a message syslogd receives matches the selection >criteria. > >The selector field is separated from the action field by >one or more > >tab characters. > > > >It was just my mistake to use spaces instead of tabs in > >/etc/syslogd.conf. Anyway, thank you very much. > > > >Regards, > >Nazila N. > > > >______________________________________________________ > >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message