Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 08:39:34 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>, Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>, Studded <Studded@dal.net>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The necessary steps for logging (the problem is fixed) Message-ID: <199810071539.IAA01822@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 21:35:12 MDT." <4.1.19981006213234.04cd1600@mail.lariat.org>
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> In the name of consistency, I'd like to see FreeBSD (and, for that matter, > ALL the BSDs) treat tabs and spaces the same, letting you quote spaces with > a backslash (or quotes surrounding a string) if you want to embed them. I've been caught by this many times. Add to the list Solaris, HP-UX, DEC UNIX, AIX, Linux, ... One would think that with every UN*X operating system having this "feature", syslogd's use of tabs instead of spaces would be common knowledge. Granted, a newbie would not know this, however I remember the first time I made this mistake I remembered not to make it again. On the other hand it could be argued that FreeBSD should a more tolerant syslogd. This would cause the FreeBSD syslogd to be incompatible with other syslogd's, meaning I could create a syslogd for my shop (Suns, Alphas, RS/6000's, DG boxes, HP boxes, Linux boxes, and FreeBSD boxes). If FreeBSD were to have a different syslogd I would not be able to copy my syslogd.conf or cat any additions to any syslogd.conf file. I would have one master file for FreeBSD and another for the other systems. A syslogd.conf syntax checker (as mentioned in an earlier posting) might be a better solution. It could be run at boot or via cron and email its results to the sysadmin. This could be written as a small Perl script. That's my $0.02 worth. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Open Systems Group Internet: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca ITSD Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca Government of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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