From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 12 08:30:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA09345 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:30:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA09296 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:30:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA29415; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:29:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199810121529.IAA29415@austin.polstra.com> To: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca Subject: Re: syslogd and syslog.conf In-Reply-To: <199810121421.HAA22643@cwsys.cwsent.com> References: <199810121421.HAA22643@cwsys.cwsent.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:29:49 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199810121421.HAA22643@cwsys.cwsent.com>, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group 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 -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message