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Date:      Tue, 6 Oct 1998 10:35:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To:        Studded <Studded@dal.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The necessary steps for logging (the problem is fixed)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.981006103009.16376H-100000@java.dpcsys.com>
In-Reply-To: <361A4F37.141BAE11@dal.net>

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On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Studded wrote:
> 	I don't think spaces are valid on either side of the syslog.conf entry.
> At least my reading of the man page doesn't suggest that. 
> 
>      Multiple selectors may be specified for a single action by
> separating
>      them with semicolon (``;'') characters.  It is important to note,
> howev-
>      er, that each selector can modify the ones preceding it.
> 
>      Multiple facilities may be specified for a single level by
> separating
>      them with comma (``,'') characters.

The LHS does look space safe.

> The section about the RHS is more wordy, but the only valid seperator
> mentioned is a comma. My vote is to change the code, failing that, the
> comment in the PR would be a good start. 

>From the man page

# Pipe all authentication messages to a filter.
auth.*                      |exec /usr/local/sbin/authfilter


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)

Dan
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 Dan Busarow                                                  949 443 4172
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