log file rotation

[Jason King]

That was the problem. I fixed the $T00 to @T00 and it works like a charm
now. I don't know how that got in there to begin with. It has been
working fine. Anyway, thanks and cheers.

Jason

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 15:15 -0500, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> At 9:23 AM -0600 1/17/06, Jason King wrote:
> >
> >On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:16 -0600, David Kelly wrote:
> >>  On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 07:23:25AM -0600, Jason King wrote:
> >>  > Hmm, when I run newsyslog I get the following message:
> >>  >
> >>  > root at mail# newsyslog -vv
> >>  > newsyslog: malformed 'at' value:
> >  > > /var/log/clamd.log                      640  3     *    $T00
> >>  > BJ /var/run/clamd.pid  1
> >>  >
> >>  >
> >>  > Any ideas?
> >>
> >  > Use @T00 rather than $T00
> >
> >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?
> 
> If newsyslog is saying that's a bad 'at' value, then there is
> *something* wrong with that line.  Maybe there's some non-printing
> character in it, which might be why we see $T00 instead of @T00.
> But as long as newsyslog thinks there is something wrong with the
> 'at' value on that line, then it will not rotate the files.  Maybe
> you have multiple lines for the same logfile, one with $T00 and
> one with @T00.
> 
> Also, you don't need to specify the '1' at the end, since that is
> just SIGHUP, and newsyslog defaults to using SIGHUP unless you give
> it some other value.  Including the '1' should not cause any problem,
> though.
>