On Wed, 01 May 2019 15:11:48 -0400,
Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
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> Re: [gentoo-user] how to fix syslog-ng warning about escaped regexp
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> "Neil Bothwick" <[email protected]>, 01.05.2019, 19:33:
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> > On Wed, 01 May 2019 07:23:50 -0400, John Covici wrote:
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> >> > > 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.
>
OK, getting man-db has fixed the problem -- thanks all.
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