[Bug 282073] newsyslog(8): options in /etc/defaults/rc.conf not consistent with /etc/crontab

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=282073

            Bug ID: 282073
           Summary: newsyslog(8): options in /etc/defaults/rc.conf not
                    consistent with /etc/crontab
           Product: Base System
           Version: 13.4-STABLE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: conf
          Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: michaelo@FreeBSD.org

/etc/crontab says:
> # Rotate log files every hour, if necessary.
> 0   *   *   *   *   root    newsyslog
but /etc/defaults/rc.conf says:
> newsyslog_enable="YES"  # Run newsyslog at startup.
> newsyslog_flags="-CN"   # Newsyslog flags to create marked files

This means that the behavior is different in the default setup and there is no
comment that the admin is supposed to sync them.

There are several ways to solve that:
* Add default flags to crontab and add comment that the admin needs to sync
(ugly)
* Run "service newsyslog onestart" (in case it has been disabled) from crontab
to have it consistent with "> /dev/null" to omit the message hourly or remove
the message altogether

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