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Date:      Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:24:52 +1300 (NZDT)
From:      Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, "N. N.M" <madrapour@hotmail.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The necessary steps for logging (the problem is fixed)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9810061223400.1284-100000@aniwa.sky>
In-Reply-To: <v04011706b23ee293481a@[128.113.24.47]>

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On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, 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...

Or perhaps complain if the number of fields on the line is incorrect.
Catches a wider range  of errors.

Andrew


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