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Jim McIver wrote:

>Trying to upgrade from Freebsd 4.6 to 4.9...haven't got it working yet, 
>but I am getting strange message from the machine.
>
>newsyslog: illegal flag in config file -- N
>
>Any idea where this is coming from?
>
>-Jim McIver
>  
>

The default configuration file for newsyslog(8)
is /etc/newsyslog.conf.

I'd look for this string in that file and comment
it out or remove it entirely.  Can't say for sure
how it got there, though, as I'm just a newbie
myself...

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.