From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 16 13:13:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01478 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:13:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (alecto.physics.uiuc.edu [130.126.8.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01466 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 13:13:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu) Received: (from igor@localhost) by alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA02928; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:13:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Igor Roshchin Message-Id: <199810162013.PAA02928@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> Subject: Re: syslogd and syslog.conf In-Reply-To: from "Randy Bush" at "Oct 16, 1998 8:25:16 am" To: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush) Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:13:21 -0500 (CDT) Cc: gaylord@gaylord.async.vt.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > there are potentially non-system routines that will break with this "fix". > > this is the point that worries me. a change is being proposed in a data > file, and it is being assumed that syslogd(8) is the only program which > reads that file. as syslog.conf(5) has been documented publicly, i would be > more cautious about changing the definition, for mere cosmetic not emergency > reasons, without widely published warning well in advance. > > randy > Nothing is supposed to use syslog.conf. It's the syslogd's config file. I haven't seen any program using syslog.conf rather than syslogd. (If you know any - let me know, and if you can, please provide with the reason why it should be using that config file.) Anyhow, proposed patch should also patch the syslog.conf(5) man page. Igor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message