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joostvb-loganalysis-20030507-2at_private

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 10:57:27PM +0000, Tina Bird wrote:
> Don't you all love it when I'm revamping my class?
> 
> Surely one of the most common errors for newbies configuring syslog is to
> use blank spaces instead of tabs in syslog.conf.  When that happens,
> syslog variously fails to start because it can't parse the file, or starts
> but refuses to accept any data.

On my GNU/Linux system, /usr/share/doc/sysklogd/readme.txt.gz reads:

>> Version 1.3
>> ** Spaces are now accepted in the syslog configuration file.  This
>> should be a real crowd pleaser.

This is syslogd as shipped with sysklogd (
http://www.infodrom.org/projects/sysklogd/ ).  Likely runs on GNU/Linux
only :(

The syslogd included is a fork of the syslogd.c code by Eric Allman.
The same guy who thought it useful to use the tab as a special character
in sendmail.cf :)

Bye,

Joost

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