"Neil Bothwick" <n...@digimed.co.uk>, 01.05.2019, 19:33: > On Wed, 01 May 2019 07:23:50 -0400, John Covici wrote:
>> > > Hi. Since my last update I get the following warning when syslog-ng >> > > runs: >> > > awk: cmd. line:130: warning: regexp escape sequence `\"' is not a >> > > known regexp operator >> > > >> > > I could find nothing at bgo or a google search, so I am wondering if >> > > anyone knows how to fix this problem? I am running version 3.20.1 >> > > and perl version 5.28.2. >> > > >> > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. >> > >> > I was getting this from the makewhatis cron job in man. The solution >> > was to replace man, which is deprecated, with man-db. >> >> How would this help my problem as I am getting nothing from >> makewhatis? > What program is producing the log entries? Or is it syslog-ng itself that > is doing so? Nope, the "faulty" program is /usr/sbin/makewhatis, line 363, where a " is escaped for awk, which the new awk 5 does not need. s.
