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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?

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 15:48 -0600, David Kelly wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 02:50:16PM -0600, Jason King wrote:
> > My maillog and daillog files have stopped rotating everyday like they
> > use to. I have 2 FBSD machines that have stopped these files from
> > rotating as of Dec 15th. I have no idea what could have caused two
> > different machines to have the same thing happen to them. The entry in
> > my newsyslog.conf file is correct. There is no reason these files
> > shouldn't be rotating daily like before. Anyone have any ideas on what
> > to look for?
> 
> Try running newsyslog manually. If that works then its supposed to be
> run every hour on the hour out of /etc/crontab.
>