[bug-inetutils] [PATCH] fix whitespace parsing in syslogd

[Robert Millan]

Hi!

The attached patch (by Julian Gilbey <address@hidden>) fixes the unproper
whitespace parsing in syslogd, which caused it not to write any messages
in /var/log/messages for some syslog.conf contents.

For details, I quote him:

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 02:12:42PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> My /etc/syslog.conf is attached.  Since moving from syslogd to
> inetutils-syslogd, I have had no messages at all in
> /var/log/messages.  I don't know why this is.

Here's the bug:

> *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
>       auth,authpriv.none;\
>       cron,daemon.none;\
>       mail,news.none          -/var/log/messages

The continuation lines begin with whitespace, which is interpreted by
syslogd as meaning that auth,authpriv.none etc. are users.

So I guess there needs to be clarification in the manpage or
modification of the config-file parsing routine (around line 1700
onwards) to handle this: whitespace at the beginning of continuation
lines should be ignored.  I could rewrite something next week if that
would be of use.


-- 
Robert Millan

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syslogd.c.patch
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