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Date:      Mon, 5 Oct 1998 18:46:47 -0400
From:      Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, "N. N.M" <madrapour@hotmail.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The necessary steps for logging (the problem is fixed)
Message-ID:  <19981005184647.A23354@emu.sourcee.com>
In-Reply-To: <v04011706b23ee293481a@[128.113.24.47]>; from Garance A Drosihn on Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 05:34:51PM -0400
References:  <19981005075959.17004.qmail@hotmail.com> <4.1.19981005093222.041901f0@mail.lariat.org> <v04011706b23ee293481a@[128.113.24.47]>

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On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 05:34:51PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 9:32 AM -0600 10/5/98, Brett Glass wrote:
> > Both spaces and tabs should count as white space. Should this
> > be submitted as a bug?
> 
> At the very least, it would be nice if syslog would complain
> about a line which has no tabs in it.  Perhaps there is some
> case where the first field might contain blanks, but there is
> no case where a line with no tabs in it would be correct...

I do not believe that this is correct -- there is support for
the program name tags (#!prog and !prog) and comments (#) and
these do not require horizontal tab characters.
-- 
Regards,
Norman C. Rice, Jr.


> ---
> Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
> Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosih@rpi.edu
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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