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Date:      Mon, 28 Jun 1999 03:18:11 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
To:        Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: **HEADS UP** newsyslog.conf syntax change
Message-ID:  <19990628031811.B14773@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <199906280937.CAA51900@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami on Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 02:37:50AM -0700
References:  <19990627201956.A1998@dragon.nuxi.com> <199906280937.CAA51900@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>

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>  * On your next ``make world'', you will need to change any "user.group"
>  * specifications in /etc/newsyslog.conf to "user:group".
> 
> This is not the right way to do it.
> 
> Please first change it to accept both syntaxes, with a warning in the
> manpage that the old one will go away in the future.  Then remove the
> old syntax after a few months.

How about we leave it this way in -CURRENT, and the MFC will act in the
above way.  This will give people the remaining lifetime of 3.x (1,2,3?
more releases) to convert.  For those running -CURRENT... well they are
supose to take heed of "HEADS UP" messages.

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com  -or-  obrien@FreeBSD.org)


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