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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
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Subject: Re: newsyslog owner.group -> owner:group
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:08:10 +0200
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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.


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