From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 23 12: 2:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 586141519D for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:02:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA19832; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:59:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:59:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two questions about newsyslog(8) In-Reply-To: <2539.924810898@monkeys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > >Yes. It will touch(1) the new log file since most daemons don't open > >logfiles with O_CREAT. > > > >Read the Source, Luke! :-) > > Actually, being impatient for answers to these questions, that is exactly > what I ended up doing. But these points ought to be documented better, > e.g. in the man page for newsyslog(8). I'll take it under advisement. If you want to be really cool, type up some replacement/additional text and submit it to the bug database. Someone (me?) can mdoc-ify it and commit it to the real man page. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message