Re: strange syslogd behaviour

2015-05-03 Thread Theo de Raadt
>Is 'tabs only' really necessary? Why are spaces bad? pf for example does >not seem to care if I use spaces or tabs. because syslog.conf is a format from the nearly 40 years ago...

Re: strange syslogd behaviour

2015-05-02 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Marko Cupać wrote: > On Sat, 2 May 2015 16:03:51 -0700 ... > So, while I agree I should read man page and respect instruction about > tabs, it appears it is quite easy to make a mistake and end up with > system that does not log, without obvious reason. > > Is 'tabs

Re: strange syslogd behaviour

2015-05-02 Thread Marko Cupać
On Sat, 2 May 2015 16:03:51 -0700 Philip Guenther wrote: > On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Marko Cupać > wrote: > > I have a pair of firewalls with identical syslog.conf files. Nothing > > special, just removed all the comments, and added a few lines for > > npppd log redirection: > ... > > If I

Re: strange syslogd behaviour

2015-05-02 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Marko Cupać wrote: > I have a pair of firewalls with identical syslog.conf files. Nothing > special, just removed all the comments, and added a few lines for npppd > log redirection: ... > If I rsync syslog.conf from one firewall to another and restart > syslogd, ev

strange syslogd behaviour

2015-05-02 Thread Marko Cupać
Hi, I have a pair of firewalls with identical syslog.conf files. Nothing special, just removed all the comments, and added a few lines for npppd log redirection: # $OpenBSD: syslog.conf,v 1.17 2005/05/25 07:35:38 david Exp $ # npppd by pacija !!npppd *.*