From owner-freebsd-security Mon Oct 5 16:26:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00396 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 16:26:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aniwa.sky (pppk-06.igrin.co.nz [202.49.245.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00367 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 16:26:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by aniwa.sky (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA02021; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:24:53 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:24:52 +1300 (NZDT) From: Andrew McNaughton X-Sender: andrew@aniwa.sky Reply-To: andrew@squiz.co.nz To: Garance A Drosihn cc: Brett Glass , "N. N.M" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The necessary steps for logging (the problem is fixed) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message