Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:58:51 +0100 (CET) From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@siemens.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/76697: newsyslog keeps one more archive files than documented Message-ID: <200501260658.j0Q6wpCe057787@curry.mchp.siemens.de> Resent-Message-ID: <200501260700.j0Q70hTO046337@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 76697
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: newsyslog keeps one more archive files than documented
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Jan 26 07:00:42 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Andre Albsmeier
>Release: FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
verified on 4.10-STABLE and 5.2.1-RELEASE but probably
all FreeBSD versions are affected
>Description:
man newsyslog.conf (on a FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE box) says:
count Specify the maximum number of archive files which may exist.
This does not consider the current log file.
However, it seems that newsyslog actually keeps count+1
archive files.
>How-To-Repeat:
On a machine which had been running for at least one
week and which has an unmodifed /etc/newsyslog.conf do
(only checked on 4.10-STABLE):
egrep 'count|/var/log/messages' /etc/newsyslog.conf
ls -l /var/log/messages.* | wc -l
and compare the output of the two commands :-).
>Fix:
Either fix the manpage or the code :-)
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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