Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:10:47 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newsyslog owner.group -> owner:group Message-ID: <19990727081046.B46030@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <3580.933070090@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 12:08:10PM %2B0200 References: <3580.933070090@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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> This one raised a number of eyebrows and a few people asked you to hold > on to legacy support for a single release. It's a reasonable request, > given the obscure error message one gets for providing the previously > supported syntax: > > newsyslog: error in config file; bad permissions: > /var/log/exim/mainlog exim.mail 640 7 * 24 Z I will be adding the ":" syntax to -STABLE before 3.3-R, and it will accept both ":" and ".". It was a one character fix in -CURRENT and I don't see any reason to ugly the code with supporting both syntaxes in -CURRENT. The change will be documented in 4.0-R's release notes. If people don't read that, then they will be in trouble in many other ways. Anyway, it has been only ":" in -CURRENT for a while now, and I haven't received any death threats, so people must not be tripping over this on a daily basis. :-) The problem with printing out warnings is ``newsyslog'' is usually run from cron(8), and anything printed out will often not be seen as I am of the opinion many do not read root's mail. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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