Syntax for user/group is changed from "user.group" to "user:group" to be

consistant with chown(8).

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8 b/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
index 154d167..8313c47 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 .\" This file contains changes from the Open Software Foundation.
 .\"
 .\"	from: @(#)newsyslog.8
-.\"	$Id: newsyslog.8,v 1.17 1999/01/28 19:56:05 wollman Exp $
+.\"	$Id: newsyslog.8,v 1.18 1999/04/10 15:09:07 chuckr Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright 1988, 1989 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 .\" 
@@ -81,9 +81,9 @@ follows:
 .Bl -tag -width indent
 .It Ar logfile_name
 Name of the system log file to be archived.
-.It Ar owner.group
+.It Ar owner:group
 This optional field specifies the owner and group for the archive file.
-The "." is essential, even if the
+The ":" is essential, even if the
 .Ar owner
 or
 .Ar group
@@ -274,7 +274,15 @@ Doesn't yet automatically read the logs to find security breaches.
 MIT Project Athena
 .Pp
 Copyright 1987, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
+.Sh COMPATIBILITY
+Previous versions of the chown utility used the dot (``.'') character to
+distinguish the group name.  
+Begining with 
+.Fx 4.0 ,
+this has been changed to be a colon (``:'') character so that user and group
+names may contain the dot character.
 .Sh "SEE ALSO"
 .Xr gzip 1 ,
 .Xr syslog 3 ,
+.Xr chown 8 ,
 .Xr syslogd 8
diff --git a/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c b/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c
index 832a8c3..40dfdd9 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c
+++ b/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
 
 #ifndef lint
 static const char rcsid[] =
-	"$Id: newsyslog.c,v 1.21 1998/12/23 12:03:33 peter Exp $";
+	"$Id: newsyslog.c,v 1.22 1999/01/22 19:38:39 wollman Exp $";
 #endif /* not lint */
 
 #define OSF
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ static struct conf_entry *parse_file()
 		if (!*parse)
                   errx(1, "malformed line (missing fields):\n%s", errline);
                 *parse = '\0';
-                if ((group = strchr(q, '.')) != NULL) {
+                if ((group = strchr(q, ':')) != NULL) {
                     *group++ = '\0';
                     if (*q) {
                         if (!(isnumber(*q))) {