newsyslog.conf question
Garance A Drosihn
drosih at rpi.edu
Wed Apr 12 19:08:47 UTC 2006
At 2:01 AM +0000 4/10/06, jhall at vandaliamo.net wrote:
>I have developed a boot image for a CD to be used
>on servers througout the organization I work for.
>Everything is working great, except for one small
>problem.
>
>When I boot from the CD I created, I receive a message
>stating "newsyslog: malformed 'at' value".
>
>/var/log/wtmp 640 5 * @01T05 B
>
>If I change the time specification to $M1D05 and start
>newsyslog, no error messages are generated.
>
>And, if I boot from the server's hard drive (from which
>the image was created), newsyslog does not generate any
>error messages.
This does seem odd, since that is basically the same
line that is in the distributed base system. Are you
sure that's from the file you're running from?
Could you send me a copy of the exact file that you
have on the CD which is getting the error?
Certainly what you have there *looks* like it should work.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih at rpi.edu
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