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From: Stefan Schmiedl <s@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to fix syslog-ng warning about escaped regexp
Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 19:11:59
Message-Id: 387127174.20190501211148@xss.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] how to fix syslog-ng warning about escaped regexp by Neil Bothwick
1 "Neil Bothwick" <neil@××××××××××.uk>, 01.05.2019, 19:33:
2
3 > On Wed, 01 May 2019 07:23:50 -0400, John Covici wrote:
4
5 >> > > Hi. Since my last update I get the following warning when syslog-ng
6 >> > > runs:
7 >> > > awk: cmd. line:130: warning: regexp escape sequence `\"' is not a
8 >> > > known regexp operator
9 >> > >
10 >> > > I could find nothing at bgo or a google search, so I am wondering if
11 >> > > anyone knows how to fix this problem? I am running version 3.20.1
12 >> > > and perl version 5.28.2.
13 >> > >
14 >> > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
15 >> >
16 >> > I was getting this from the makewhatis cron job in man. The solution
17 >> > was to replace man, which is deprecated, with man-db.
18 >>
19 >> How would this help my problem as I am getting nothing from
20 >> makewhatis?
21
22 > What program is producing the log entries? Or is it syslog-ng itself that
23 > is doing so?
24
25 Nope, the "faulty" program is /usr/sbin/makewhatis, line 363, where a " is
26 escaped for awk, which the new awk 5 does not need.
27
28 s.

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Re: [gentoo-user] how to fix syslog-ng warning about escaped regexp John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com>