Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:53:37 -0500 From: "T. William Wells" <bill@twwells.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: conf/25945: error in /etc/syslog.conf comments, with fix Message-ID: <E14fPO5-0004NL-00@twwells.com>
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>Number: 25945
>Category: conf
>Synopsis: error in /etc/syslog.conf comments, with fix
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Mar 20 09:00:02 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: T. William Wells
>Release: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
Any FreeBSD system since syslog was modified to allow space in
syslog.conf.
>Description:
A silly documentation nit.
>How-To-Repeat:
Edit the syslog.conf file.
>Fix:
--- /tmp/syslog.conf.old Tue Mar 20 11:48:53 2001
+++ /tmp/syslog.conf Tue Mar 20 11:52:14 2001
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/syslog.conf,v 1.13.2.2 2001/02/26 09:26:11 phk Exp $
#
-# Spaces are NOT valid field separators in this file.
+# Spaces ARE valid field separators in this file. However,
+# other *nix-like systems still insist on using tabs as field
+# separators. If you are sharing this file between systems, you
+# may want to use only tabs as field separators here.
# Consult the syslog.conf(5) manpage.
*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console
*.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages
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