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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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