From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 27 20:16: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E73E837B403 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 20:16:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7S3Fx402930; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:16:00 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200108280316.f7S3Fx402930@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: jacks@sage-american.com Cc: Edwin Groothuis , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Housekeeping Question In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20010827170442.01151810@mail.sage-american.com> From: Chris Fedde Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:15:59 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:04:42 -0500 jacks@sage-american.com wrote: +------------------ | At 07:47 AM 8.28.2001 +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: | >On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 04:41:40PM -0500, jacks@sage-american.com wrote: | >> A housekeeping question... | >> | >> I'm curious about the entry in the root cron that runs the "newsyslog" | event. | >> I get the error mailed to me: "qzip: /var/log/mail.0 No such file or log" | > | >it's the systems-cron in /etc/cron. | | Yes, I know it's in the cron events, but I have no log file "mail.0" I have | other "mail.x" but not the one on the line in cron telling it to rotate | "mail.0" so, the error keeps reporting to me each day via mail to root.... +------------------ I suspect some error in the /etc/newsyslog.conf file. Reading the manual page for that might help clear up what is happening. good luck -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message