On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 08:15:48AM +0059, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:06:48AM -0700, Marco S Hyman wrote: > > I wrote... > > > Did you think to read the man page for newsyslog? It mentions > > > a file called newsyslog.conf. Hmmm, a configuration file. I > > > wonder what's in it. Oh, the man page also says SEE ALSO... > > > newsyslog.conf(5). > > > > O ops... Our man page does not have the SEE ALSO entry (it should, > > IMHO) but does list /etc/newsyslog.conf in the FILES section. I > > was on a different system when I checked. > > > > heh. the catch is that newsyslog.conf(5) is an MLINK to syslog(8). so > there's no point adding a pointer to the same page in SEE ALSO. this has > confused me a good few times as well. >
er, an MLINK to newsyslog(8), not syslog(8). ugh. jmc
