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authormurray <murray@FreeBSD.org>2001-03-31 04:41:24 +0000
committermurray <murray@FreeBSD.org>2001-03-31 04:41:24 +0000
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Note in the comments that it is possible, but not recommended to use
spaces instead of tabs in this file. This matches the description in the manpage. PR: 25945 Submitted by: T. William Wells <bill@twwells.com>
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diff --git a/etc/syslog.conf b/etc/syslog.conf
index 425ab72..81955af 100644
--- a/etc/syslog.conf
+++ b/etc/syslog.conf
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
# $FreeBSD$
#
-# Spaces are NOT valid field separators in this file.
+# Spaces ARE valid field separators in this file. However,
+# other *nix-like systems still insist on using tabs as field
+# separators. If you are sharing this file between systems, you
+# may want to use only tabs as field separators here.
# Consult the syslog.conf(5) manpage.
*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console
*.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages
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