From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 25 14:26:47 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 5ACEF16A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:26:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail2.lmtribune.com (mail2.lmtribune.com [199.5.221.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41FA943D1D for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:26:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmciver@lmtribune.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.lmtribune.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11CB06AC; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:38:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail2.lmtribune.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (VaMailArmor-2.0.1.16) id 95446-1E2F83A5; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:38:34 -0800 Received: from mailpc.lmtribune.com (mailpc.lmtribune.com [192.168.135.152]) by mail2.lmtribune.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7827A678; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:38:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from ADV/SpoolDir by mailpc.lmtribune.com (Mercury 1.48); 25 Feb 04 14:26:26 -0700 Received: from SpoolDir by ADV (Mercury 1.48); 25 Feb 04 14:26:15 -0700 From: "Jim McIver" Organization: TPC Holdings To: Matthew Seaman Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 14:26:08 -7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <403CB084.23059.11E78F1@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20040225221954.GD29738@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <403CAB67.15012.10A8110@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira MailArmor (version: 2.0.1.16; VAE: 6.24.0.4; VDF: 6.24.0.18; host: mail2.lmtribune.com) 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 22:26:47 -0000 Matthew, > 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, but I am getting strange message from the machine. > > > > newsyslog: illegal flag in config file -- N > > > > 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: That's what I'm trying to do, but I'm stuck on the error code 127 ...touch when I run 'make installworld' and can't find the solution. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting- > edge.html > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > 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 > -Jim McIver