Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:15:09 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Redmond Militante <r-militante@northwestern.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newsyslog.conf syntax 5.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <20030810211509.GD25948@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030810182834.GA87940@darkpossum> References: <20030810182834.GA87940@darkpossum>
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On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 01:28:35PM -0500, Redmond Militante wrote:
> hi all
>
> i'm getting the following message from the cron daemon on a 5.1-RELEASE box.
>
> newsyslog: malformed at:
> /var/log/firewall_logs 600 14 * $DO Z
>
> i've been trying to set up newsyslog so that it archives my firewall logs every night at midnight. can anyone tell me what's wrong with my syntax on this line?
Looks fine to me. You could try @T00 instead of $D0 to specify
midnight, but the manual page says those are equivalent anyhow.
At a complete guess: no newline at end of file? Incorrect syntax on
an earlier line?
Cheers,
Matthew
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