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Date:      Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:19:54 +0000
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Jim McIver <jmciver@lmtribune.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: upgrade problem
Message-ID:  <20040225221954.GD29738@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <403CAB67.15012.10A8110@localhost>
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:04:20PM +0000, Jim McIver wrote:
> Trying to upgrade from Freebsd 4.6 to 4.9...haven't got it working yet,=
=20
> but I am getting strange message from the machine.
>=20
> newsyslog: illegal flag in config file -- N
>=20
> Any idea where this is coming from?

You seem to be running an older version of newsyslog(8) with the
/etc/newsyslog.conf file from a more recent version.  The 'N' flag
(meaning don't try and send a signal to any process) was added to
RELENG_4 newsyslog on 4th May 2003.

This suggests that your attempt to upgrade has failed to update all of
the standard system programs -- you'll probably find it easiest to do
a 4.6 to 4.9 upgrade by cvsup(1)ing the latest RELENG_4_9 sources, and
then doing a full buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, installworld
cycle as detailed in /usr/src/UPDATING and the handbook at:

    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.=
html

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.                       26 The Paddocks
                                                      Savill Way
PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey         Marlow
Tel: +44 1628 476614                                  Bucks., SL7 1TH UK

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