newsyslog bizarreness
Daren
darenr at end-design.co.uk
Tue Jul 13 05:56:46 PDT 2004
Daren wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently removed a couple of lines from newsyslog.conf, and now every
> hour I'm getting an email from cron telling me that newsyslog complained
> about the lines which are now deleted!
>
> There is definately only one config file, and if I run newsyslog from
> command line, it exits without a problem and running it in verbose, it
> doesn't see the two lines. Is there something about the cronned
> newsyslog that's different?
>
> Oddly, the actual error is a mis-interpretation to do with the size
> field (it is reading the time/date field).
>
> Any ideas on this?
>
Ok, sorry, forget that.
One very stupid oversight on my behalf! Sorted now.
Cheers
Daren
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