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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


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