From 63b5983b9ea282c68370d7ad556110662ed9687b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 03:15:02 +0000
Subject: Syntax for user/group is changed from "user.group" to "user:group" to
 be consistant with chown(8).

---
 usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8 | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8')

diff --git a/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8 b/usr.sbin/newsyslog/newsyslog.8
index 154d1670d50e..8313c4736f9c 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
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