> This one raised a number of eyebrows and a few people asked you to hold
> on to legacy support for a single release. It's a reasonable request,
> given the obscure error message one gets for providing the previously
> supported syntax:
>
> newsyslog: error in config file; bad permissions:
> /var/log/exim/mainlog exim.mail 640 7 * 24 Z
I will be adding the ":" syntax to -STABLE before 3.3-R, and it will
accept both ":" and ".".
It was a one character fix in -CURRENT and I don't see any reason to ugly
the code with supporting both syntaxes in -CURRENT. The change will be
documented in 4.0-R's release notes. If people don't read that, then
they will be in trouble in many other ways. Anyway, it has been only ":"
in -CURRENT for a while now, and I haven't received any death threats, so
people must not be tripping over this on a daily basis. :-)
The problem with printing out warnings is ``newsyslog'' is usually run
from cron(8), and anything printed out will often not be seen as I am of
the opinion many do not read root's mail.
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