log file rotation

David Kelly dkelly at hiwaay.net
Tue Jan 17 07:44:42 PST 2006


On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:41:29AM -0600, David Kelly wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 09:23:31AM -0600, Jason King wrote:
> > It is already @T00. I don't know why it appears as a $ in the email.
> > Just did a copy paste. Go figure on that one. Any other thoughts?
> 
> Your error is "malformed at value" and when one does copy/paste the data
> appears differently than expected. Therefore there is something wrong
> with the way its typed, maybe high bit set on one or more characters.
> Suggest deleting the * up to the BJ and retype with care. Retry.

For fun try "hexdump -C /etc/newsyslog.conf | more" to see exactly what
is typed.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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