From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 25 14:20:00 2004 Return-Path: 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 5153516A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:20:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D1C143D2D for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:19:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) i1PMJsuV030832 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:19:54 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i1PMJslI030831; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:19:54 GMT (envelope-from matthew) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:19:54 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: Jim McIver Message-ID: <20040225221954.GD29738@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Jim McIver , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <403CAB67.15012.10A8110@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <403CAB67.15012.10A8110@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrade problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 22:20:00 -0000 --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 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 --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAPR+KdtESqEQa7a0RAqj+AKCWEuXzlg6PjZjTAch+INOSYJL5QgCfVmqd /U6j5LWahSt13KZIAqDuwA0= =nGxh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --69pVuxX8awAiJ7fD--