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Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 09:32:54 -0600
To: "N. N.M" <madrapour@hotmail.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Subject: Re: The necessary steps for logging (the problem is fixed)
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Both spaces and tabs should count as white space. Should this be
submitted as a bug?

--Brett

At 12:59 AM 10/5/98 -0700, N. N.M wrote:
 
>Dear Norman 
>
>Thank you very much. The problem with logging is fixed! I did what you 
>said:
>
>>I believe that this is because you used spaces to separate the
>>fields instead of the required tabs.
>
>>From syslog.conf man page (look at the last sentence):
>
>>The syslog.conf file is the configuration file for the syslogd(8) 
>>program.  It consists of blocks of lines separated by program 
>>specifications, with each line containing two fields: the selector 
>>field which specifies the types of messages and priorities to which 
>>the line applies, and an action field which specifies the action to >be 
>taken if a message syslogd receives matches the selection >criteria.  
>The selector field is separated from the action field by >one or more 
>tab characters.
>                                                          
>It was just my mistake to use spaces instead of tabs in 
>/etc/syslogd.conf. Anyway, thank you very much.
>
>Regards,
>Nazila N.
>
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