From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 29 07:18:29 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 262B516A420 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:18:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B317D43D48 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:18:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.4) id k2T7IJUO009659; Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:18:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:18:19 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: "Rob W." Message-ID: <20060329071819.GY42429@dan.emsphone.com> References: <016a01c652ff$e5022920$f31f10ac@rob> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <016a01c652ff$e5022920$f31f10ac@rob> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newsyslog: nonexistent time for 'at' value 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: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 07:18:29 -0000 In the last episode (Mar 29), Rob W. said: > newsyslog: nonexistent time for 'at' value: > /var/log/ipfw/ipfw.log 600 10 * $W0D2 Z > > I keep getting this message emailed to me. I don't have any entries > in crontab or syslog. Anybody know what this is and how do I get rid > of it? You sure you don't have a line like this in /etc/crontab? 0 * * * * root newsyslog It looks like newsyslog is having problems parsing that $W0D2 value, but it works okay for me. Possibly the timezone you are in has a DST switch that skips directly from 1:59 to 3:00 next Sunday, which means there is no 2:00, which is why newsyslog is complaining. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com