passing -t to newsyslog

[Adam Vande More]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 8:36 PM, Chris Stankevitz <chris at stankevitz.com>
wrote:

>
> I want "-t" to be passed when newsyslog is run hourly... not when it is
> run once when the system boots for the purpose of creating log files.
>
> Per "man rc.conf":
>
> newsyslog_enable is used to run newsyslog one time at boot to create
> missing log files.  newsyslog_enable does not cause newsyslog to
> continuously run.
>
> Per /etc/crontab:
>
> newsyslog is run periodically via en entry in /etc/crontab.  newsyslog is
> called without any arguments.


There is no law preventing you from editing /etc/crontab.  I imagine that
bit of advice is there so the system's crontab isn't broken.

Setting correct locale may also fulfill your desires assuming LC_TIME is
read.

-- 
Adam