From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Apr 21 12:40:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04D5A37B400 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 12:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g3LJe6S42856; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 12:40:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 12:40:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200204211940.g3LJe6S42856@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: "Crist J. Clark" Subject: Re: bin/37163: syslogd "#!" feature is misleading/can induce unwanted results. Reply-To: "Crist J. Clark" Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/37163; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Crist J. Clark" To: David Malone 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 > To: Jeremy Chadwick > 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)... -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message