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Date:      Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:23:18 +0400 (MSK)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r233167 - head/etc
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1203191721090.58448@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <201203190930.q2J9UeO5060866@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201203190930.q2J9UeO5060866@svn.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, 19 Mar 2012, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:

> Author: glebius
> Date: Mon Mar 19 09:30:40 2012
> New Revision: 233167
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/233167
> 
> Log:
>   Rotate auth.log and messages at the beginning of a year. Otherwise,
>   daily security checks 800.loginfail and 900.tcpwrap may produce
>   false positive alerts.

[snip]

> -/var/log/auth.log			600  7     100  *     JC
> +/var/log/auth.log			600  7     100  @0101T JC

Did I miss newsyslog behaviour change? 

IIRC size limit is totally ignored if timed rotation is selected, and some time 
ago I even proposed to change this, but it was rejected, as "one can use two 
lines, one with size limit, and other with timed rotation"


-- 
Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck@FreeBSD.org ]
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