The time parsing routines in use by the newsyslog program are apparently not terribly robust. On many timezones, they fail to parse the "when" field of the newsyslog.conf if it contains a valid with a leading asterisk. e.g. "@T00" - both given as an example in the manpage, as well as in the distributed /etc/newsyslog.conf file. The behavior is reproducable on 9.1-RELEASE, stable/9, stable/10 and "head" as of today (May 16, 2014). How-To-Repeat: TZ=UTC newsyslog -s -C -n -r Notice that output is generated. TZ=EST5DT newsyslog -s -C -n -r Notice that no output is generated. Under a system running stable/9.2-ish, I get output like this in the failing case: # TZ=EST5EDT newsyslog -s -C -n -r newsyslog: malformed 'at' value: /var/log/maillog 640 7 * @T00 C (it dies at whatever the first line with an "@...." in the when field.)
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