On Wed, 7 May 2003, Sweth Chandramouli wrote:
> For those who aren't on such a system, or who bounce
> between OSes too frequently to be bothered worrying whether today's
> OS has issues with spaces or not, here's a quickie that will ID errant
> spaces in a syslog.conf file:
>
> $ perl -ne '
> ($s) = /^([^#]\S+\s+)/ and
> $s =~ s/ /<SPACE>/g and
> do { $s =~ s/\t/<TAB>/g ; print "$.: $s\n"; };
> ' /etc/syslog.conf
>
> (which returns things like:
>
> 25: mark.debug;auth.err<SPACE><SPACE><SPACE>
> 31: user.debug<SPACE>
> 33: daemon.debug<TAB><SPACE>
>
oooh, sweth, you've written a syslog-lint! how very cool!
can we put this on line somewhere? would it be useful to have it detect
other kinds of error conditions?
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