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Date:      Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:06:42 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To:        "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc newsyslog.conf src/usr.sbin/newsyslog newsyslog.8 newsyslog.c
Message-ID:  <19990629110642.C76311@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <199906280315.UAA70715@freefall.freebsd.org>; from David E. O'Brien on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 08:15:04PM -0700
References:  <199906280315.UAA70715@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 08:15:04PM -0700, David E. O'Brien wrote:
> obrien      1999/06/27 20:15:03 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     etc                  newsyslog.conf 
>     usr.sbin/newsyslog   newsyslog.8 newsyslog.c 
>   Log:
>   Syntax for user/group is changed from "user.group" to "user:group" to be
>   consistant with chown(8).
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.21      +2 -2      src/etc/newsyslog.conf
>   1.19      +11 -3     src/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
>   1.23      +2 -2      src/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c
> 
chown(8) compiled with -DSUPPORT_DOT (by default) accepts either one.
So, why not have newsyslog(8) accept either syntax too, not breaking
compatibility with older releases?

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