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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