Mark Millard
2021-May-06 21:02 UTC
Fresh releng/13.0 release/13.0.0 install: "newsyslog: malformed 'at' value" messages
Having used bsdinstall to make a USB3 SSD on a RPi4B (zfs-on-root, GPT parition, RPi4B materials copied copied to msdos file system), booting gets error notices: newsyslog: malformed 'at' value: /var/log/all.log 600 7 * @T00 J newsyslog: malformed 'at' value: /var/log/auth.log 600 7 1000 @0101T JC newsyslog: malformed 'at' value: /var/log/daily.log 640 7 * @T00 JN newsyslog: malformed 'at' value: /var/log/maillog 640 7 * @T00 JC newsyslog: malformed 'at' value: /var/log/messages 644 5 1000 @0101T JC newsyslog: malformed 'at' value: /var/log/utx.log 644 3 * @01T05 B newsyslog: malformed 'at' value: /var/log/daemon.log 644 5 1000 @0101T JC It is apparently complaining about some of the content in: # more /etc/newsyslog.conf # configuration file for newsyslog # $FreeBSD$ # # Entries which do not specify the '/pid_file' field will cause the # syslogd process to be signalled when that log file is rotated. This # action is only appropriate for log files which are written to by the # syslogd process (ie, files listed in /etc/syslog.conf). If there # is no process which needs to be signalled when a given log file is # rotated, then the entry for that file should include the 'N' flag. # # Note: some sites will want to select more restrictive protections than the # defaults. In particular, it may be desirable to switch many of the 644 # entries to 640 or 600. For example, some sites will consider the # contents of maillog, messages, and lpd-errs to be confidential. In the # future, these defaults may change to more conservative ones. # # logfilename [owner:group] mode count size when flags [/pid_file] [sig_num] /var/log/all.log 600 7 * @T00 J /var/log/auth.log 600 7 1000 @0101T JC /var/log/console.log 600 5 1000 * J /var/log/cron 600 3 1000 * JC /var/log/daily.log 640 7 * @T00 JN /var/log/debug.log 600 7 1000 * JC /var/log/init.log 644 3 1000 * J /var/log/kerberos.log 600 7 1000 * J /var/log/maillog 640 7 * @T00 JC /var/log/messages 644 5 1000 @0101T JC /var/log/monthly.log 640 12 * $M1D0 JN /var/log/devd.log 644 3 1000 * JC /var/log/security 600 10 1000 * JC /var/log/utx.log 644 3 * @01T05 B /var/log/weekly.log 640 5 * $W6D0 JN /var/log/daemon.log 644 5 1000 @0101T JC <include> /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/[!.]*.conf <include> /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/[!.]*.conf Specifically, the 7 lines with "@" involved under "when" get the complaints. ==Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)