Re: [bug-inetutils] [patch] syslogd separate hostname by tab

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Dirk Jagdmann <address@hidden> wrote:

> I wanted to have some alignment on my loghost and I have made a small
> patch to syslogd which will put a tab character after the hostname
> instead of a space character.

I'm afraid this will harm compatibility.  As far as I know the syslogd
implementations always put a space after the hostname, so most existing
log file analyzers will expect it there.

Regards,
Sergey