On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:08:05PM -0400, Andy Dougherty wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, David Mackintosh wrote: > > > However... it provides this file... in... MS-DOS format. > > > > So logrotate barfs on it every night and it isn't immediately obvious > > as to why, because when you bring it up in vi it looks right, even > > though it isn't. > > That's a good reason to hate Vi-Imposter too. If you had been using the > *real* vi, it would have been obvious.
And for that matter, logrotate as well. Or any other program that doesn't ignore trailing whitespace in configuration files. Abigail
