From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 12 19:08:47 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 9128D16A400 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:08:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC38C43D69 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:08:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.13.1/8.13.0) with ESMTP id k3CJ8eKX008407; Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:08:40 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <1224.12.170.206.13.1144634480.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> References: <1224.12.170.206.13.1144634480.squirrel@admintool.trueband.net> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:08:39 -0400 To: jhall@vandaliamo.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn 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) on 128.113.2.4 Cc: Subject: Re: newsyslog.conf question 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, 12 Apr 2006 19:08:47 -0000 At 2:01 AM +0000 4/10/06, jhall@vandaliamo.net wrote: >I have developed a boot image for a CD to be used >on servers througout the organization I work for. >Everything is working great, except for one small >problem. > >When I boot from the CD I created, I receive a message >stating "newsyslog: malformed 'at' value". > >/var/log/wtmp 640 5 * @01T05 B > >If I change the time specification to $M1D05 and start >newsyslog, no error messages are generated. > >And, if I boot from the server's hard drive (from which >the image was created), newsyslog does not generate any >error messages. This does seem odd, since that is basically the same line that is in the distributed base system. Are you sure that's from the file you're running from? Could you send me a copy of the exact file that you have on the CD which is getting the error? Certainly what you have there *looks* like it should work. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu