newsyslog not reading /ect/rc.conf arguments?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Wed, 5 May 2010 08:01:26 -0700, Paul Hoffman <phoffman at proper.com> wrote:
> Greetings again. Running FreeBSD 8.0, I have added the following to /etc/rc.conf:
>
>   newsyslog_flags="-a /usr/old-log/"
>
> I have stopped and started newsyslog. However, the rotated logs are
> still being written into /var/log. No errors appear in
> /var/log/messages or in dmesg.

How did you start newsyslog?  There's an rc.d script that should *read*
the flags from rc.conf:

    /etc/rc.d/newsyslog start