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On Wed, 01 May 2019 15:11:48 -0400, |
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Stefan Schmiedl wrote: |
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> Re: [gentoo-user] how to fix syslog-ng warning about escaped regexp |
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> "Neil Bothwick" <neil@××××××××××.uk>, 01.05.2019, 19:33: |
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> > On Wed, 01 May 2019 07:23:50 -0400, John Covici wrote: |
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> >> > > Hi. Since my last update I get the following warning when syslog-ng |
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> >> > > runs: |
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> >> > > awk: cmd. line:130: warning: regexp escape sequence `\"' is not a |
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> >> > > known regexp operator |
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> >> > > I could find nothing at bgo or a google search, so I am wondering if |
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> >> > > anyone knows how to fix this problem? I am running version 3.20.1 |
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> >> > > and perl version 5.28.2. |
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> >> > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. |
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> >> > I was getting this from the makewhatis cron job in man. The solution |
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> >> > was to replace man, which is deprecated, with man-db. |
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> >> How would this help my problem as I am getting nothing from |
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> >> makewhatis? |
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> > What program is producing the log entries? Or is it syslog-ng itself that |
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> > is doing so? |
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> Nope, the "faulty" program is /usr/sbin/makewhatis, line 363, where a " is |
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> escaped for awk, which the new awk 5 does not need. |
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OK, getting man-db has fixed the problem -- thanks all. |
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