From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 14 22:12:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA04126 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 22:12:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA04120 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 22:12:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id WAA06685; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 22:12:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma006683; Wed Oct 14 22:11:52 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id WAA11878; Wed, 14 Oct 1998 22:11:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199810150511.WAA11878@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: syslog.conf comment about tabs In-Reply-To: <199810142147.PAA07468@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Oct 14, 98 03:47:21 pm" To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 22:11:52 -0700 (PDT) Cc: axl@iafrica.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nate Williams writes: > > It's a pity that, after all the discussion about syslog's > > differentiation between tabs and spaces, nothing was actually done about > > it. This is especially sad given that 3.0-RELEASE is about to be > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > snapped. > ^^^^^^^^ > > > > When someone with commit privs has some time (does this sound like > > millenium hype? ;) it'd be great to see PR8162 making it into the > > repository. > > Given that we're about to 'release' FreeBSD, a change that affects a > critical part of the system that is not a bugfix should never be > committed since it might break something. > > It is being ignored *because* it's too late to commit a fix that isn't > necessary and has potentially 'huge' destablizing possibilities. PR8162 (which is just a two line patch to add a comment to the default /etc/syslog.conf) has already been committed, according to the audit trail. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message