From owner-freebsd-security Mon Oct 5 17:16:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11156 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:16:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fledge.watson.org (COPLAND.CODA.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.222.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11104 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 17:15:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA14570; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 20:13:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 20:13:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson 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 As someone who copies config file entries around via the xterm selection, which will not get tabs due to tab expansion, I would say go with the change to accepting either tabs or spaces (or any combination). What do other major config files like this use? (newsyslog.conf, crontab) And it does suck to have so many types of config files, of course.. :) 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... > > --- > 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 > Robert N Watson Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cmu.edu/ TIS Labs at Network Associates, Inc. http://www.tis.com/ SafePort Network Services http://www.safeport.com/ robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message