From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 28 3:18:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C5B515415; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 03:18:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (iras-2-31.ucdavis.edu [169.237.16.159]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA11510; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 03:18:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA35783; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:18:12 GMT (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 03:18:11 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: **HEADS UP** newsyslog.conf syntax change Message-ID: <19990628031811.B14773@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <19990627201956.A1998@dragon.nuxi.com> <199906280937.CAA51900@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199906280937.CAA51900@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami on Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 02:37:50AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > * On your next ``make world'', you will need to change any "user.group" > * specifications in /etc/newsyslog.conf to "user:group". > > This is not the right way to do it. > > Please first change it to accept both syntaxes, with a warning in the > manpage that the old one will go away in the future. Then remove the > old syntax after a few months. How about we leave it this way in -CURRENT, and the MFC will act in the above way. This will give people the remaining lifetime of 3.x (1,2,3? more releases) to convert. For those running -CURRENT... well they are supose to take heed of "HEADS UP" messages. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message