Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:22:36 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Redmond Militante <r-militante@northwestern.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newsyslog.conf syntax 5.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <20030810212235.GF25948@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030810211509.GD25948@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20030810182834.GA87940@darkpossum> <20030810211509.GD25948@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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--SxgehGEc6vB0cZwN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 10:15:09PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 01:28:35PM -0500, Redmond Militante wrote: > > i'm getting the following message from the cron daemon on a 5.1-RELEASE= box. > >=20 > > newsyslog: malformed at: > > /var/log/firewall_logs 600 14 * $DO Z > >=20 > > i've been trying to set up newsyslog so that it archives my firewall lo= gs every night at midnight. can anyone tell me what's wrong with my syntax= on this line? >=20 > Looks fine to me. You could try @T00 instead of $D0 to specify > midnight, but the manual page says those are equivalent anyhow. >=20 > At a complete guess: no newline at end of file? Incorrect syntax on > an earlier line? Actually, I see the problem now. You wrote: =20 $DO (letter O) =20 when you should have written =20 $D0 (digit 0) =20 Cheers, =20 Matthew =20 --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --SxgehGEc6vB0cZwN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/NrebdtESqEQa7a0RAk+JAJ0dkeL6+PJm3+cokt049FnpD3P/JQCdGD8Y Fme6RcyobX08l+6usOXBV8g= =ow+C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SxgehGEc6vB0cZwN--
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