On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 10:15:09PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 01:28:35PM -0500, Redmond Militante wrote:
> > i'm getting the following message from the cron daemon on a 5.1-RELEASE box.
> >
> > newsyslog: malformed at:
> > /var/log/firewall_logs 600 14 * $DO Z
> >
> > i've been trying to set up newsyslog so that it archives my firewall logs every
> > night at midnight. can anyone tell me what's wrong with my syntax on this line?
>
> Looks fine to me. You could try @T00 instead of $D0 to specify
> midnight, but the manual page says those are equivalent anyhow.
>
> At a complete guess: no newline at end of file? Incorrect syntax on
> an earlier line?
Actually, I see the problem now. You wrote:
$DO (letter O)
when you should have written
$D0 (digit 0)
Cheers,
Matthew
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