From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 27 8:11:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91B2915023 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:11:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (iras-1-88.ucdavis.edu [169.237.16.88]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA01502; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:10:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA65077; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:10:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 08:10:47 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newsyslog owner.group -> owner:group Message-ID: <19990727081046.B46030@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <3580.933070090@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <3580.933070090@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 12:08:10PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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