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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 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 |