On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:04:20PM +0000, Jim McIver wrote: > Trying to upgrade from Freebsd 4.6 to 4.9...haven't got it working yet, > but I am getting strange message from the machine. > > newsyslog: illegal flag in config file -- N > > Any idea where this is coming from?
You seem to be running an older version of newsyslog(8) with the /etc/newsyslog.conf file from a more recent version. The 'N' flag (meaning don't try and send a signal to any process) was added to RELENG_4 newsyslog on 4th May 2003. This suggests that your attempt to upgrade has failed to update all of the standard system programs -- you'll probably find it easiest to do a 4.6 to 4.9 upgrade by cvsup(1)ing the latest RELENG_4_9 sources, and then doing a full buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, installworld cycle as detailed in /usr/src/UPDATING and the handbook at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK
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