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From: John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to fix syslog-ng warning about escaped regexp
Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 21:00:58
Message-Id: m34l6dlwko.wl-covici@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] how to fix syslog-ng warning about escaped regexp by Neil Bothwick
1 On Wed, 01 May 2019 13:33:32 -0400,
2 Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 >
4 > [1 <text/plain; US-ASCII (quoted-printable)>]
5 > On Wed, 01 May 2019 07:23:50 -0400, John Covici wrote:
6 >
7 > > > > Hi. Since my last update I get the following warning when syslog-ng
8 > > > > runs:
9 > > > > awk: cmd. line:130: warning: regexp escape sequence `\"' is not a
10 > > > > known regexp operator
11 > > > >
12 > > > > I could find nothing at bgo or a google search, so I am wondering if
13 > > > > anyone knows how to fix this problem? I am running version 3.20.1
14 > > > > and perl version 5.28.2.
15 > > > >
16 > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
17 > > >
18 > > > I was getting this from the makewhatis cron job in man. The solution
19 > > > was to replace man, which is deprecated, with man-db.
20 > >
21 > > How would this help my problem as I am getting nothing from
22 > > makewhatis?
23 >
24 > What program is producing the log entries? Or is it syslog-ng itself that
25 > is doing so?
26
27 It seems to be syslog-ng itself, although it says awk command line
28 130. I do have man rather than man-db, so I will replace and see if
29 things improve.
30
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