From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 20:15:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6943416A420 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:15:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp5.server.rpi.edu (smtp1.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A79A43D79 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:15:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp5.server.rpi.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k0HKFEgo018826; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:15:18 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <1137511411.7326.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1137444617.7255.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060116214812.GB5533@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <1137504205.10680.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060117151620.GB19673@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <1137511411.7326.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:15:13 -0500 To: Jason King , David Kelly From: Garance A Drosehn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: log file rotation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:15:26 -0000 At 9:23 AM -0600 1/17/06, Jason King wrote: > >On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:16 -0600, David Kelly wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:23:25AM -0600, Jason King wrote: >> > Hmm, when I run newsyslog I get the following message: >> > >> > root@mail# newsyslog -vv >> > newsyslog: malformed 'at' value: > > > /var/log/clamd.log 640 3 * $T00 >> > BJ /var/run/clamd.pid 1 >> > >> > >> > Any ideas? >> > > Use @T00 rather than $T00 > >It is already @T00. I don't know why it appears as a $ in the email. >Just did a copy paste. Go figure on that one. Any other thoughts? If newsyslog is saying that's a bad 'at' value, then there is *something* wrong with that line. Maybe there's some non-printing character in it, which might be why we see $T00 instead of @T00. But as long as newsyslog thinks there is something wrong with the 'at' value on that line, then it will not rotate the files. Maybe you have multiple lines for the same logfile, one with $T00 and one with @T00. Also, you don't need to specify the '1' at the end, since that is just SIGHUP, and newsyslog defaults to using SIGHUP unless you give it some other value. Including the '1' should not cause any problem, though. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA