Bug#398432: file: identifies postfixl mail.log as data instead of ASCII TEXT

2006-11-14 Thread Michael Piefel
Am Montag, den 13.11.2006, 10:06 -0800 schrieb Igor Pruchanskiy: > This problem also makes grep unusable If grep cannot cope, why do you think it’s a bug in ‘file’? When both grep and file say the file is binary, why do you think that both err? I’m sure there is something fishy about that file.

Bug#398432: file: identifies postfixl mail.log as data instead of ASCII TEXT

2006-11-13 Thread Igor Pruchanskiy
Package: file Version: 4.12-1 Severity: important mailone:~% file /var/log/mail.log /var/log/mail.log: data while contents of the file look like this: -- snip -- Nov 12 06:25:39 mailone postfix/smtpd[6789]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1] Nov 12 06:25:39 mailone postfix/smtpd[6789]: DD4FB4804