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Date:      Thu, 15 Oct 1998 18:34:02 +0100
From:      Stuart Henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk>
To:        Igor Roshchin <igor@physics.uiuc.edu>
Cc:        Clark Gaylord <gaylord@gaylord.async.vt.edu>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: syslogd and syslog.conf
Message-ID:  <3626320A.712D129F@internationalschool.co.uk>
References:  <199810151535.KAA09617@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu>

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Igor Roshchin wrote:
> 
> Now, why one wants to bother to do the changes.
> 
> 1) MANY people make this mistake, learning it "hard way".
>    Note, that it's easy to miss in the man pages that only
> tabs are allowed as separators. (It is not written in capital letters,
> as Clark suggests ;) )

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.

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