From owner-freebsd-security Mon Oct 5 15:47:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA21911 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:47:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from emu.sourcee.com (emu.sourcee.com [199.201.159.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA21884 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:46:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nrice@emu.sourcee.com) Received: (from nrice@localhost) by emu.sourcee.com (8.8.8/8.8.3) id SAA23401; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 18:46:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19981005184647.A23354@emu.sourcee.com> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 18:46:47 -0400 From: Norman C Rice To: Garance A Drosihn , Brett Glass , "N. N.M" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The necessary steps for logging (the problem is fixed) References: <19981005075959.17004.qmail@hotmail.com> <4.1.19981005093222.041901f0@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Garance A Drosihn on Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 05:34:51PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 05:34:51PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 9:32 AM -0600 10/5/98, Brett Glass wrote: > > Both spaces and tabs should count as white space. Should this > > be submitted as a bug? > > At the very least, it would be nice if syslog would complain > about a line which has no tabs in it. Perhaps there is some > case where the first field might contain blanks, but there is > no case where a line with no tabs in it would be correct... I do not believe that this is correct -- there is support for the program name tags (#!prog and !prog) and comments (#) and these do not require horizontal tab characters. -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr. > --- > Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu > Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message