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
>=20
> i'm getting the following message from the cron daemon on a 5.1-RELEASE b=
ox.
>=20
> newsyslog: malformed at:
> /var/log/firewall_logs 600 14 * $DO Z
>=20
> 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 o=
n 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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