From owner-freebsd-security Sat Oct 17 07:57:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA18938 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 07:57:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from paprika.michvhf.com (paprika.michvhf.com [209.57.60.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA18928 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 07:57:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vev@michvhf.com) Received: (qmail 14685 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Oct 1998 14:57:19 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19981017095905.23337@nostromo.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 10:57:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Vince Vielhaber To: "H. Eckert" Subject: Re: syslogd and syslog.conf Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 17-Oct-98 H. Eckert wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 06:34:02PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> It might be good to add a warning to the top of the standard syslog.conf >> file >> if it's not too late, bearing in mind that the normally recommended editor >> for new users is ee, which by default converts tabs to spaces >> automatically. > > Ee does that ? One more reason to hate it. > The first thing I do on a new installation is edit root's > dotfiles to change the editor to vim or at least vi. It > would be nice if sysconfig would copy the default editor > from the config options page if it had been changed during > the installation. EE doesn't convert existing tabs only new ones unless you tell it not to. You can do that from the command line or from the options menu. I've been using it for years, once you learn HOW to use it it's not the Evil Editor you want to think it is. Vince. -- ========================================================================== Vince Vielhaber -- KA8CSH email: vev@michvhf.com flame-mail: /dev/null # include TEAM-OS2 Online Searchable Campground Listings http://www.camping-usa.com "There is no outfit less entitled to lecture me about bloat than the federal government" -- Tony Snow ========================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message