--- newsyslog/newsyslog.8	Sun Mar 31 00:38:19 2002
+++ newsyslog/newsyslog.8	Sat Mar 30 06:34:07 2002
@@ -254,6 +254,16 @@ 
 rotate on every 5th day of month at 6:00 hr
 .El
 .Pp
+.Em Note:
+if you place asterisk 
+.Pq Ql \&*
+into both
+.Ar size
+and
+.Ar when
+fields the logfile will be turned over each time starting
+.Nm .
+.Pp
 .It Ar flags
 This optional field specifies if the archive should have any
 special processing done to the archived log files.
@@ -284,9 +294,14 @@ 
 the file name to read to find the daemon process id.  If this
 field is present, a
 .Ar signal_number
-is sent the process id contained in this
-file.  This field must start with "/" in order to be recognized
-properly.
+is sent the process id contained in this file; in other case
+.Nm
+will tries sent signal to
+.Xr syslogd 8 .
+Please note, all path must be absolute, (i.e. paths must start with "/"
+in order to be recognized properly). Place the dash
+.Ar -
+here if you don't want sent any signals to any processes.
 .It Ar signal_number
 This optional field specifies
 the signal number will be sent to the daemon process.
--- newsyslog/newsyslog.c	Sun Mar 31 00:38:21 2002
+++ newsyslog/newsyslog.c	Sun Mar 31 01:03:25 2002
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ 
 
 #ifndef lint
 static const char rcsid[] =
-"$FreeBSD: src/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c,v 1.25.2.4 2001/11/14 16:58:58 obrien Exp $";
+"$Id$";
 #endif	/* not lint */
 
 #define OSF
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ 
 #define CE_BZCOMPACT 8		/* Compact the achived log files with bzip2 */
 				/*  status messages */
 #define	CE_TRIMAT  4		/* trim at a specific time */
+#define CE_SKIPNOTIFY 16	/* skip syslogd(8) notification */
 
 #define NONE -1
 
@@ -167,17 +168,24 @@ 
 					    ctime(&ent->trim_at));
 				return;
 			} else if (verbose && ent->hours <= 0) {
-				printf("--> time is up\n");
+				printf("time is up");
+				if (ent->size < 0)
+					printf(" or ");
+				else
+					printf(", ");
 			}
 		}
 		if (verbose && (ent->size > 0))
 			printf("size (Kb): %d [%d] ", size, ent->size);
 		if (verbose && (ent->hours > 0))
 			printf(" age (hr): %d [%d] ", modtime, ent->hours);
-		if (force || ((ent->size > 0) && (size >= ent->size)) ||
+		if (verbose && (ent->hours <= 0 && ent->size < 0)) 
+			printf("always ");
+		if ( force || ((ent->size > 0) && (size >= ent->size)) ||
 		    (ent->hours <= 0 && (ent->flags & CE_TRIMAT)) ||
-		    ((ent->hours > 0) && ((modtime >= ent->hours)
-			    || (modtime < 0)))) {
+		    ((ent->hours > 0) && ((modtime >= ent->hours) ||
+			(modtime < 0) )) ||
+		    (ent->hours <= 0 && ent->size < 0) ) {
 			if (verbose)
 				printf("--> trimming log....\n");
 			if (noaction && !verbose) {
@@ -460,6 +468,8 @@ 
 		if (q && *q) {
 			if (*q == '/')
 				working->pid_file = strdup(q);
+			else if (*q == '-')
+				working->flags |= CE_SKIPNOTIFY;
 			else if (isdigit(*q))
 				goto got_sig;
 			else
@@ -666,7 +676,11 @@ 
 		pid = get_pid(pid_file);
 	}
 	if (pid) {
-		if (noaction) {
+		if (flags & CE_SKIPNOTIFY) {
+			notified = 1;
+			if (verbose)
+				printf("no syslogd(8) notification needed\n");
+		} else if (noaction) {
 			notified = 1;
 			printf("kill -%d %d\n", sig, (int) pid);
 		} else if (kill(pid, sig))