Index: libexec/rc/rc.d/newsyslog
===================================================================
--- libexec/rc/rc.d/newsyslog
+++ libexec/rc/rc.d/newsyslog
@@ -14,7 +14,23 @@
 required_files="/etc/newsyslog.conf"
 command="/usr/sbin/${name}"
 start_cmd="newsyslog_start"
+start_precmd="newsyslog_prestart"
 stop_cmd=":"
+
+newsyslog_prestart()
+{
+	excludedfiles=$( find -E /etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ /usr/local/etc/newsyslog.conf.d/ \
+		\( -type f \) -and \
+		\( -name ".*" -or -not -name "*.conf" \) -and \
+		-not \( -regex ".*\.(sample|bak|orig|rej)" \) )
+	if [ -n "${excludedfiles}" ]; then
+		echo "********************** WARNING from newsyslog(8) **********************"
+		echo "The following files start with '.' or do not end with '.conf'"
+		echo "and therefore will not be included by the default newsyslog.conf(5):"
+		echo "${excludedfiles}"
+		echo "***********************************************************************"
+	fi
+}
 
 newsyslog_start()
 {