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

From: Mike Blomgren (miblat_private)
Date: Wed May 07 2003 - 02:01:22 PDT

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    On Wed, 7 May 2003, Jason Haar wrote:
    > 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?
    > 
    
    While we are at it, why doesn't syslog also log which facility and level 
    the messages are coming in with?...
    
    ~Mike
    
    
    
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