Dear Sirs!

I am very happy with FreeBSD built-in utilities. Such, in most cases i needn't
any other software to solve my problems and task. Hovewer, there is posted some
useful changes to newsyslog(8):
1. When time="*" and size="*" now it means that newsyslog must rotate log file
   with any size and at any time, when started. Early it just skip such logs.
   I think, if we always want to skip some logfiles, we can comment it out or
   just remove.
2. After all, newsyslog always tries to sent some signal (HUP by default) to
   some process (syslogd(8) by default) which can be not wanted sometimes. Now
   if path_to_pid_file="-" the newsyslog will not sent any signal to any
   process for this records.

Few examples:
/var/log/squid/access.log	644  31  *     *     -  -
/var/log/apache/access.log	644   3  8192  *     Z  -
/var/log/maillog		644   7  *     @T00  Z

I take a look to ports collection before, but have not find any with such
features, when my rotation scheme want to have such ones.

For apply my changes please use patch provided. If you find my changes useful
please inform me how can i fix it (move to ports collection or other way).

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Best regards,
Mishka.

Fix: Please use following patch:

Note: This patchfile should be placed into /usr/src/usr.sbin directory.
(cd /usr/sys/usr.sbin ; patch < newsyslog.patch)
How-To-Repeat: 
1. You can change time and size fields to asterisk (*) and see newer turned
   over logfiles.
2. You can't avoid sending signal. If you ignore path_to_pid_file field the
   newsyslog will sent SIGHUP to syslogd(8). Moreover, this field must be
   started with slash "/" character, so should be path to some pid-file.