Fresh releng/13.0 release/13.0.0 install: "newsyslog: malformed 'at' value" messages
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
Thu May 6 21:02:31 UTC 2021
Having used bsdinstall to make a USB3 SSD on a RPi4B
(zfs-on-root, GPT parition, RPi4B materials copied
copied to msdos file system), booting gets error notices:
newsyslog: malformed 'at' value:
/var/log/all.log 600 7 * @T00 J
newsyslog: malformed 'at' value:
/var/log/auth.log 600 7 1000 @0101T JC
newsyslog: malformed 'at' value:
/var/log/daily.log 640 7 * @T00 JN
newsyslog: malformed 'at' value:
/var/log/maillog 640 7 * @T00 JC
newsyslog: malformed 'at' value:
/var/log/messages 644 5 1000 @0101T JC
newsyslog: malformed 'at' value:
/var/log/utx.log 644 3 * @01T05 B
newsyslog: malformed 'at' value:
/var/log/daemon.log 644 5 1000 @0101T JC
It is apparently complaining about some of the
content in:
# more /etc/newsyslog.conf
# configuration file for newsyslog
# $FreeBSD$
#
# Entries which do not specify the '/pid_file' field will cause the
# syslogd process to be signalled when that log file is rotated. This
# action is only appropriate for log files which are written to by the
# syslogd process (ie, files listed in /etc/syslog.conf). If there
# is no process which needs to be signalled when a given log file is
# rotated, then the entry for that file should include the 'N' flag.
#
# Note: some sites will want to select more restrictive protections than the
# defaults. In particular, it may be desirable to switch many of the 644
# entries to 640 or 600. For example, some sites will consider the
# contents of maillog, messages, and lpd-errs to be confidential. In the
# future, these defaults may change to more conservative ones.
#
# logfilename [owner:group] mode count size when flags [/pid_file] [sig_num]
/var/log/all.log 600 7 * @T00 J
/var/log/auth.log 600 7 1000 @0101T JC
/var/log/console.log 600 5 1000 * J
/var/log/cron 600 3 1000 * JC
/var/log/daily.log 640 7 * @T00 JN
/var/log/debug.log 600 7 1000 * JC
/var/log/init.log 644 3 1000 * J
/var/log/kerberos.log 600 7 1000 * J
/var/log/maillog 640 7 * @T00 JC
/var/log/messages 644 5 1000 @0101T JC
/var/log/monthly.log 640 12 * $M1D0 JN
/var/log/devd.log 644 3 1000 * JC
/var/log/security 600 10 1000 * JC
/var/log/utx.log 644 3 * @01T05 B
/var/log/weekly.log 640 5 * $W6D0 JN
/var/log/daemon.log 644 5 1000 @0101T JC
<include> /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/[!.]*.conf
<include> /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/[!.]*.conf
Specifically, the 7 lines with "@" involved under "when" get the
complaints.
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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
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