A lot of thanks to Wietse Venema Extract from logdaemon-4.4 (the one I was using) /* * Hacks by Wietse Venema (wietse@wzv.win.tue.nl): * * - Refuse to accept '+' wildcards, but complain instead. This feature did really help against hackers who where using echo + + >> ~everybody/.rhosts to spread on our network. I use logdaemon because of skey, another (if needed) good reason to use it. Patrick Cipiere.