Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 12:40:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/37163: syslogd "#!" feature is misleading/can induce unwanted results. Message-ID: <200204211940.g3LJe6S42856@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/37163; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/37163: syslogd "#!" feature is misleading/can induce unwanted results.
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 12:32:57 -0700
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 11:00:03AM -0700, David Malone wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR bin/37163; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
> To: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: bin/37163: syslogd "#!" feature is misleading/can induce unwanted results.
> Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 18:58:48 +0100
>
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 04:32:13PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > >Description:
> > syslogd(8) has a particular "feature" which I feel should be disabled by default. This feature is documented, but due to the obfuscated nature of the syslog.conf(5) manpage, most system administrators would probably miss this.
>
> Rather than change the behaviour of syslogd and upset people who
> expect it to work this way, maybe we could edither improve the man
> page or include a comment in the default syslog.conf warning people
> about this feature?
The syslog.conf(5) manpage seems pretty clear,
A program specification is a line beginning with `#!prog' or `!prog' (the
former is for compatibility with the previous syslogd, if one is sharing
syslog.conf files, for example)...
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