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From: Kurt Lidl <lidl@pix.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: newsyslog confused by some timezones (apparently)
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>Number:         189878
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       newsyslog(8) confused by some timezones (apparently)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat May 17 00:50:00 UTC 2014
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Sat May 17 05:11:30 UTC 2014
>Originator:     Kurt Lidl
>Release:        9.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD hydra.pix.net 9.1-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p5 #0: Sat Jul 27 01:14:23 UTC 2013     root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

>Description:
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.)

>Fix:


>Release-Note:
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