bin/100018: newsyslog does not check size if time_at is used
Arne Woerner
arne_woerner at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 10 09:40:20 UTC 2006
>Number: 100018
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: newsyslog does not check size if time_at is used
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Jul 10 09:40:18 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Arne Woerner
>Release: R6.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD neo.riddick.homeunix.org 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #4: Sun Jul 9 19:31:19 UTC 2006 aw at neo.riddick.homeunix.org:/opt/src/sys/i386/compile/NEO i386
>Description:
I had the line
/var/log/messages 644 80 30000 @T12 JC
in my /etc/newsyslog.conf yesterday.
/var/log/messages's size was over 33,000,000 bytes.
But when I called "newsyslog" nothing happened...
-Arne
>How-To-Repeat:
Should work like this:
1. Create a large file
2. put an appropriate line into newsyslog.conf
3. call newsyslog
>Fix:
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