From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 17 02:17:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA17021 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 02:17:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uriela.in-berlin.de (servicia.in-berlin.de [192.109.42.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA17013; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 02:17:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de!ripley@servicia.in-berlin.de) Received: by uriela.in-berlin.de (Smail-3.2.0.101 1997-Dec-17 #1) id m0zUSWM-000VYfC; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:19:34 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from ripley@localhost) by nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA01607; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 09:59:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ripley) Message-ID: <19981017095905.23337@nostromo.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 09:59:05 +0200 From: "H. Eckert" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslogd and syslog.conf References: <199810151535.KAA09617@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> <3626320A.712D129F@internationalschool.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <3626320A.712D129F@internationalschool.co.uk>; from Stuart Henderson on Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 06:34:02PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Greetings, Ripley -- http://www.in-berlin.de/User/nostromo/ == "You don't say what kind of CD drive or hard disks you have, but since it is causing you trouble I'll assume it is IDE." -- comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message