Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:34:17 -0800 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Ben Mesander <ben@timing.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslog.conf syntax change (multiple program/hostspecifications) Message-ID: <200302141734.17039.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <3E4D788A.19F3789@mindspring.com> References: <20030210114930.GB90800@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <15949.20503.795005.19315@piglet.timing.com> <3E4D788A.19F3789@mindspring.com>
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On Friday 14 February 2003 15:15, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Ben Mesander wrote:
> > I don't know if freebsd's syslogd insists on tabs and not spaces in
> > its config file (most seem to), but if so, it'd be nice if it was
> > equally happy treating both as whitespace.
>
> To let you put spaces in file names, without having to resort to
> quote processing (" or \).
FreeBSD allows either but notes your syslog.conf files might be
incompatible with other systems.
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