From owner-freebsd-security Mon Oct 5 11:00:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA22706 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 11:00:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA22698 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 11:00:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net) From: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net Received: from localhost (brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA26645; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:59:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: orion.ac.hmc.edu: brdavis owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:59:28 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu To: Brett Glass cc: "N. N.M" , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The necessary steps for logging (the problem is fixed) In-Reply-To: <4.1.19981005093222.041901f0@mail.lariat.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Brett Glass wrote: > Both spaces and tabs should count as white space. Should this be > submitted as a bug? This isn't a bug any more then any other UN*X stupidity you could care to name including other cases nearly identical to this one like tabs not being the same as spaces in sendmail.cf and Makefiles. One thing you can do in this case is use a sanity checker for syslog.conf files like the one I wrote. You can get it at: http://www3.hmc.edu/~brdavis/software/syslogck/ It's based on the Sun syslog manpage, but I think it should work with other normal syslog.conf files. -- Brooks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message