From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Feb 14 17:34:34 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAD8D37B401 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:34:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay.omnis.com (smtp-relay.omnis.com [216.239.128.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E85B843F85 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:34:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from salty.rapid.stbernard.com (corp-2.ipinc.com [199.245.188.2]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5266442EE7; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:34:17 -0800 (PST) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr.com To: Terry Lambert , Ben Mesander Subject: Re: syslog.conf syntax change (multiple program/hostspecifications) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 17:34:17 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030210114930.GB90800@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org> <15949.20503.795005.19315@piglet.timing.com> <3E4D788A.19F3789@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3E4D788A.19F3789@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302141734.17039.wes@softweyr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message