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...

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 *.*

Re: strange syslogd behaviour

2015-05-02 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Marko Cupać marko.cu...@mimar.rs 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

Re: strange syslogd behaviour

2015-05-02 Thread Marko Cupać
On Sat, 2 May 2015 16:03:51 -0700 Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Marko Cupać marko.cu...@mimar.rs 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

Re: strange syslogd behaviour

2015-05-02 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Marko Cupać marko.cu...@mimar.rs 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