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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Krikorian)
Thu Apr 12 19:06:11 1990

Date: Thu, 12 Apr 90 19:06:01 -0400
From: David Krikorian <dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, probe@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: dkk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU

There is an error in /mit/fixes/servers.new/lib/rvd.add.  This bourne
shell script contains the line:

	grep local7.info /etc/syslog.conf >& /dev/null

which will always fail since ">&" is a /bin/csh redirect.  The result
is that a line gets added to /etc/syslog.conf (for local7.info) every
time mkserv rvd is run.  The correct line is presumably:

	grep local7.info /etc/syslog.conf 2>&1 /dev/null

or something similar.


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