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<div>The man page of tac_plus states for –P</div>
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<div>"-P Parse the configuration file, echo it to standard output while parsing, and then exit. tac_plus will exit non-zero when a parser error occurs."</div>
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<div>This does not seem to be the case. It echoes it to stderr. I am pasting some strace to show this.</div>
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<div>3589 execve("/usr/sbin/tac_plus", ["/usr/sbin/tac_plus", "-P", "-C", "/local/tacacs/conf/approved/tac_"...], [/* 21 vars */]) = 0</div>
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<div>3589 read(4, "#\n# $Id: tac_plus.conf 12 2013-0"..., 4096) = 4096</div>
<div>3589 write(2, "#", 1) = 1</div>
<div>3589 write(2, "\n", 1) = 1</div>
<div>3589 write(2, "#", 1) = 1</div>
<div>3589 write(2, " ", 1) = 1</div>
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<div>Just thought you might be interested in this. Thanks for a great application! :)</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
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<div>Michael Norrving</div>
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