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

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Lots of things use tabs as special characters.  Makefiles, for instance.

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:17:31AM +0200, Joost van Baal wrote:
>From: Joost van Baal <joostvb-loganalysis-20030507-2at_private>
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>Subject: Re: [logs] tbird rant: syslog.conf, tabs and spaces
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>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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