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Date:      Mon, 14 Oct 2024 08:04:20 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 282073] newsyslog(8): options in /etc/defaults/rc.conf not consistent with /etc/crontab
Message-ID:  <bug-282073-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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            Bug ID: 282073
           Summary: newsyslog(8): options in /etc/defaults/rc.conf not
                    consistent with /etc/crontab
           Product: Base System
           Version: 13.4-STABLE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: conf
          Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: michaelo@FreeBSD.org

/etc/crontab says:
> # Rotate log files every hour, if necessary.
> 0   *   *   *   *   root    newsyslog
but /etc/defaults/rc.conf says:
> newsyslog_enable=3D"YES"  # Run newsyslog at startup.
> newsyslog_flags=3D"-CN"   # Newsyslog flags to create marked files

This means that the behavior is different in the default setup and there is=
 no
comment that the admin is supposed to sync them.

There are several ways to solve that:
* Add default flags to crontab and add comment that the admin needs to sync
(ugly)
* Run "service newsyslog onestart" (in case it has been disabled) from cron=
tab
to have it consistent with "> /dev/null" to omit the message hourly or remo=
ve
the message altogether

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