Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:58:51 +0100 (CET) From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@siemens.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/76697: newsyslog keeps one more archive files than documented Message-ID: <200501260658.j0Q6wpCe057787@curry.mchp.siemens.de> Resent-Message-ID: <200501260700.j0Q70hTO046337@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 76697 >Category: bin >Synopsis: newsyslog keeps one more archive files than documented >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Jan 26 07:00:42 GMT 2005 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Andre Albsmeier >Release: FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE i386 >Organization: >Environment: verified on 4.10-STABLE and 5.2.1-RELEASE but probably all FreeBSD versions are affected >Description: man newsyslog.conf (on a FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE box) says: count Specify the maximum number of archive files which may exist. This does not consider the current log file. However, it seems that newsyslog actually keeps count+1 archive files. >How-To-Repeat: On a machine which had been running for at least one week and which has an unmodifed /etc/newsyslog.conf do (only checked on 4.10-STABLE): egrep 'count|/var/log/messages' /etc/newsyslog.conf ls -l /var/log/messages.* | wc -l and compare the output of the two commands :-). >Fix: Either fix the manpage or the code :-) >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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