Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 23:16:03 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Len Conrad <lconrad@Go2France.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newsyslog unhappy Message-ID: <20001113231603.C75251@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20001113160026.095414f0@mail.Go2France.com>; from lconrad@Go2France.com on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 04:16:42PM %2B0100 References: <5.0.0.25.0.20001113160026.095414f0@mail.Go2France.com>
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On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 04:16:42PM +0100, Len Conrad wrote: > I'd like to rotate my maillogs at 24:00, but leaving the > default-as-installed settings which apparently are as I desired (24 > rotation), one machine rotates at 22:00 and another rotates at 19:00 > which, well, won't hack it for us. > > So I thought I'd stick in my own settings, but it looks like I'm > having "typical fun with Unix man pages and tick marks". > > I get this mail, every hour, which is causing my attitude to be also malformed: > > newsyslog: malformed at: > /var/log/maillog 664 365 * 24@`T000000' Z Lose the quotes. Actually, if you are aiming to rotate the log everyday at midnight, all you need is, /var/log/maillog 664 365 * @T00 Z -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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