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From: Chris Stankevitz <chris@stankevitz.com>
Subject: passing -t to newsyslog
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Hi,

I want to pass -t to newsyslog so that archived log files have a useful 
date/time suffix vs an obnoxious numeric suffix.

Apparently freebsd uses /etc/crontab to launch newsyslog.  The manual 
tells me to not edit /etc/crontab [1]

How should I get my freebsd system to append date/time to archived 
logfile names?

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/configtuning-cron.html

Thank you,

Chris