From 1f38b5660fbd5a4d3e9a4ef736ebb041d4cf8557 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Murray Stokely Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 04:41:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- etc/syslog.conf | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/etc/syslog.conf b/etc/syslog.conf index 425ab72ca67e..81955af3bef7 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