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Date:      Thu, 17 Mar 2005 11:20:40 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Chris Knipe <savage@savage.za.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: newsyslog
Message-ID:  <20050317172040.GA18079@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <000901c52b14$076bc210$0a01a8c0@ops.cenergynetworks.com>
References:  <000901c52b14$076bc210$0a01a8c0@ops.cenergynetworks.com>

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In the last episode (Mar 17), Chris Knipe said:
> Can anyone perhaps just give me a sample for 'when' in newsyslog.conf to 
> get rotation to rotate at 00:00 on the 1st of the month?
> 
> I tried '@$M18D0' to no evail...

If you drop the @, that would rotate on the 18th day of every month. 
Try (from the manpage):

    $M1D0   rotate at the first day of every month at midnight (i.e.,
            the start of the day; same as @01T00)

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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