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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 23:16:03 -0800
From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: Len Conrad <lconrad@Go2France.com>
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Subject: Re: newsyslog unhappy
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On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 04:16:42PM +0100, Len Conrad wrote:
> I'd like to rotate my maillogs at 24:00, but leaving the 
> default-as-installed settings which apparently are as I desired (24 
> rotation), one machine rotates at 22:00 and another rotates at 19:00 
> which, well, won't hack it for us.
> 
> So I thought I'd stick in my own settings, but it looks like I'm 
> having "typical fun with Unix man pages and tick marks".
> 
> I get this mail, every hour, which is causing my attitude to be also malformed:
> 
> newsyslog: malformed at:
> /var/log/maillog                        664  365   *  24@`T000000'    Z

Lose the quotes. Actually, if you are aiming to rotate the log
everyday at midnight, all you need is,

  /var/log/maillog                        664  365   *  @T00    Z

-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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