Re: [logs] tbird rant: syslog.conf, tabs and spaces

From: Jason Haar (Jason.Haarat_private)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 16:48:22 PDT

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    On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 10:57:27PM +0000, Tina Bird wrote:
    > 
    > Why the *bleep* can't it be civilized and write a message to the damn
    > system log?  Or to the console? Or to its own special logfile?
    
    In fact - why does it differentiate in the first place???
    
    I mean, all the left-hand parts of syslog.conf refer to strings containing
    NO SPACES (e.g. mail.notice, *.*) - so why not just accept spaces?
    
    
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    Jason Haar
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