From owner-freebsd-security Thu Oct 15 22:59:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA15918 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 22:59:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk ([194.72.37.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA15911; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 22:59:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@internationalschool.co.uk) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk (bamboo [10.0.0.70]) by internationalschool.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA28806; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 18:32:48 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <3626320A.712D129F@internationalschool.co.uk> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 18:34:02 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson Organization: http://ints.ml.org/ X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Igor Roshchin CC: Clark Gaylord , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslogd and syslog.conf References: <199810151535.KAA09617@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Igor Roshchin wrote: > > Now, why one wants to bother to do the changes. > > 1) MANY people make this mistake, learning it "hard way". > Note, that it's easy to miss in the man pages that only > tabs are allowed as separators. (It is not written in capital letters, > as Clark suggests ;) ) It might be good to add a warning to the top of the standard syslog.conf file if it's not too late, bearing in mind that the normally recommended editor for new users is ee, which by default converts tabs to spaces automatically. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message