On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 09:32:54AM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> Both spaces and tabs should count as white space.
> Should this be submitted as a bug?
As the program works according to the documentation (man page),
I don't consider this feature a bug. However, many people
stumble over the whitespace issue so perhaps a parser
enhancement should be considered.
--
Regards,
Norman C. Rice, Jr.
> --Brett
>
> At 12:59 AM 10/5/98 -0700, N. N.M wrote:
>
> >Dear Norman
> >
> >Thank you very much. The problem with logging is fixed! I did what you
> >said:
> >
> >>I believe that this is because you used spaces to separate the
> >>fields instead of the required tabs.
> >
> >>From syslog.conf man page (look at the last sentence):
> >
> >>The syslog.conf file is the configuration file for the syslogd(8)
> >>program. It consists of blocks of lines separated by program
> >>specifications, with each line containing two fields: the selector
> >>field which specifies the types of messages and priorities to which
> >>the line applies, and an action field which specifies the action to >be
> >taken if a message syslogd receives matches the selection >criteria.
> >The selector field is separated from the action field by >one or more
> >tab characters.
> >
> >It was just my mistake to use spaces instead of tabs in
> >/etc/syslogd.conf. Anyway, thank you very much.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Nazila N.
> >
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