Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:08:10 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newsyslog owner.group -> owner:group Message-ID: <3580.933070090@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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Hi David, Your commit catalogued in the cvs log for newsyslog.c: revision 1.23 date: 1999/06/28 03:15:02; author: obrien; state: Exp; lines: +2 -2 Syntax for user/group is changed from "user.group" to "user:group" to be consistant with chown(8). This one raised a number of eyebrows and a few people asked you to hold on to legacy support for a single release. It's a reasonable request, given the obscure error message one gets for providing the previously supported syntax: newsyslog: error in config file; bad permissions: /var/log/exim/mainlog exim.mail 640 7 * 24 Z Is the reason you haven't re-instated legacy support because you are strongly opposed to it, or because you don't have time? If it's the latter, I'll do it. If the former, note that your commit message was broken, since chown(8) supports both periods and colons. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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