On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Chris Edillon wrote:
> and finally, make sure that all the whitespace in the
> line you add to syslog.conf is tabs only. on some platforms
> syslog.conf is parsed with m4, which only wants to see tabs
> for whitespace.
A very good point: you can check this by ... hmm, I thought by running
syslog in debug mode. If you have a space after the "selector"
(facility.level) spec. it'll be included in name which means it won't be
matched by any syslog call. I know I've seen an output showing the
selectors (I found my 'extra space' error that way) but I can't find it.
Guess just use vi ;->
or:
perl -ne \
's/ +/<space>/g; s/\t+/<tab>/g; print if ! /^\s*#/ and /\S/' \
/etc/syslog.conf
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