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Date:      Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:51:19 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Michael Hostbaek <mich@freebsdcluster.org>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: newsyslog.conf - sudden error
Message-ID:  <20020326175119.I89885@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020326092656.GA515@mich.itxmarket.com>; from mich@freebsdcluster.org on Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:26:56AM %2B0100
References:  <20020325102339.GC529@mich.itxmarket.com> <20020325161817.C84226@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020326092656.GA515@mich.itxmarket.com>

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On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:26:56AM +0100, Michael Hostbaek wrote:
> Crist J. Clark (cjc) writes:
> > That error message means it's having trouble reading the "$W0D2." But
> > I believe that is valid syntax. I can't see any recent changes to
> > newsyslog(8) that might be making problems.
> > 
> > Is there something special about that time? There wasn't some kind of
> > DST-Standard time switch in the local timezone, was there (kind of
> > early in the year for that)?
> 
> Well, the one box that do work (4.4-STABLE) is located in the UK (hence
> another timezone -1) - whereas the other boxes are located in Italy and
> France. Could that be the problem ?

Looking for a reason mktime(3) may have failed. That's the only reason
you would get that error other than the syntax being no good.
-- 
Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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