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Date:      Sat, 01 Nov 2003 11:59:07 -0500
From:      billg <wg@roomformonkeys.com>
To:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: What Does the Install Put In /var/log/security?
Message-ID:  <1067705946.4552.2.camel@roomformonkeys.com>
In-Reply-To: <44k76k3whr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <1067649881.357.5.camel@roomformonkeys.com> <44k76k3whr.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 11:05, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> billg <wg@roomformonkeys.com> writes:
> 
> > ...Before enabling firewall logging, I
> > thought I noticed that /var/log/security was a binary file.

> It should probably be created as an empty file.
> 
> [But remember that there's no clear distinction between a "binary" and
> a "text" file under Unix, except as you decide to interpret it...]

True. In this case, it was "less" interpreting it as a binary file and
asking if I still wanted to look at it.



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