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Date:      Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:29:49 -0700
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: syslogd and syslog.conf 
Message-ID:  <199810121529.IAA29415@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810121421.HAA22643@cwsys.cwsent.com>
References:  <199810121421.HAA22643@cwsys.cwsent.com>

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In article <199810121421.HAA22643@cwsys.cwsent.com>,
Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group  <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> wrote:

> Having had a chance to think about this, I think that a modification of 
> this nature, which would make syslogd somewhat incompatible, e.g. not 
> the same as, syslogd's on other UNIX systems, a name change should also 
> be considered.  In keeping with tradition, this new syslogd should be 
> called nsyslogd.

Yuck!

BSDI's syslogd can handle spaces in syslog.conf just fine.  Ours
should too.

This isn't a new feature, it's a long-overdue bug fix.

John
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   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth

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