Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:56:36 -0600 From: Jason King <jking@informs.com> To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@FreeBSD.org> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: log file rotation Message-ID: <1138038996.11414.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <p0623093cbff2fe64a098@[128.113.24.47]> References: <1137444617.7255.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060116214812.GB5533@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <1137504205.10680.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060117151620.GB19673@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <1137511411.7326.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> <p0623093cbff2fe64a098@[128.113.24.47]>
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That was the problem. I fixed the $T00 to @T00 and it works like a charm now. I don't know how that got in there to begin with. It has been working fine. Anyway, thanks and cheers. Jason On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 15:15 -0500, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > At 9:23 AM -0600 1/17/06, Jason King wrote: > > > >On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:16 -0600, David Kelly wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:23:25AM -0600, Jason King wrote: > >> > Hmm, when I run newsyslog I get the following message: > >> > > >> > root@mail# newsyslog -vv > >> > newsyslog: malformed 'at' value: > > > > /var/log/clamd.log 640 3 * $T00 > >> > BJ /var/run/clamd.pid 1 > >> > > >> > > >> > Any ideas? > >> > > > Use @T00 rather than $T00 > > > >It is already @T00. I don't know why it appears as a $ in the email. > >Just did a copy paste. Go figure on that one. Any other thoughts? > > If newsyslog is saying that's a bad 'at' value, then there is > *something* wrong with that line. Maybe there's some non-printing > character in it, which might be why we see $T00 instead of @T00. > But as long as newsyslog thinks there is something wrong with the > 'at' value on that line, then it will not rotate the files. Maybe > you have multiple lines for the same logfile, one with $T00 and > one with @T00. > > Also, you don't need to specify the '1' at the end, since that is > just SIGHUP, and newsyslog defaults to using SIGHUP unless you give > it some other value. Including the '1' should not cause any problem, > though. >
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