From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 26 07:00:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1C5216A4CE for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:00:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D94643D1F for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:00:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j0Q70hvf046344 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:00:43 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j0Q70hTO046337; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:00:43 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:00:43 GMT Resent-Message-Id: <200501260700.j0Q70hTO046337@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-From: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org (GNATS Filer) Resent-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Resent-Reply-To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, Andre Albsmeier Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2338816A4CE for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 06:58:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from goliath.siemens.de (goliath.siemens.de [192.35.17.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45BF043D31 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 06:58:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@siemens.com) Received: from mail3.siemens.de (mail3.siemens.de [139.25.208.14]) by goliath.siemens.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j0Q6wq07003763 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:58:52 +0100 Received: from mars.cert.siemens.com (mars.cert.siemens.com [139.25.19.9]) by mail3.siemens.de (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j0Q6wpfs015359 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:58:52 +0100 Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [139.25.42.7]) mail/cert.mc.pre,v 1.65 2004/10/29 21:53:46 mailadm Exp $) with ESMTP id j0Q6wp93054517 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:58:51 +0100 (CET) Received: (from localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j0Q6wpKM004455 for FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:58:51 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200501260658.j0Q6wpCe057787@curry.mchp.siemens.de> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:58:51 +0100 (CET) From: Andre Albsmeier To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.113 Subject: bin/76697: newsyslog keeps one more archive files than documented X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 07:00:43 -0000 >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: