On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 01:28:35PM -0500, Redmond Militante wrote: > hi all > > 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?
Cheers,
Matthew
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