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Date:      Tue, 06 Oct 1998 20:56:48 -0500
From:      "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>
To:        Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>, Studded <Studded@dal.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The necessary steps for logging (the problem is fixed)
Message-ID:  <3.0.3.32.19981006205648.006e987c@207.227.119.2>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981006103009.16376H-100000@java.dpcsys.com>
References:  <361A4F37.141BAE11@dal.net>

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At 10:35 AM 10/6/98 -0700, Dan Busarow wrote:
>Unless someone can demonstrate a valid use of spaces on the LHS
>crontab style checking would work though. (spaces are only legal
>in the last field of crontab as well)

Huh?

You are refering to the checking, but the original /etc/crontab's for 2.2.7 and the 9/30 beta are mostly spaces, but the do mix tabs and spaces on the LHS, assuming you are referring in this case to only the time/date fields.

In 2.2.7 (v1.13) even has a tab between adjkerntz and the -a flag that the beta (v.1.18) did not.

There was some other space/tab swapping between the 2, but crontab is _not_ consistant or mentioned clearly (at all) in the man pages.

The important parts are almost identical.  Jeez.

Otherwise a warning for syslog would be good, but I've always used tabs for better clarity reading syslog.conf.

Good time to make a decision for crontab or at least the file. ;)


Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking
jeff@mountin.net

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