On Monday, 6 March 2006 at 12:33:57 -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 10:36 AM +0000 3/6/06, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: >> pjd 2006-03-06 10:36:33 UTC >> >> FreeBSD src repository >> >> Modified files: >> usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.8 syslogd.c >> Log: >> By default (for security reasons) syslogd(8) doesn't create >> log files when they don't exist, but sometimes its quite >> useful (eg. we use non-standard log files and memory backed >> /var/, which is populated on boot). >> >> Add -C option which tells syslogd(8) to create log files if >> they don't exist. > > Hmm. Note that newsyslog includes an option to automatically > create files. Presumably the log files created by syslogd would > need to be rotated, in which case they'll already have entries > in newsyslog.conf. > > The advantage of creating them in newsyslog is that newsyslog > knows what owner, group, and chmod bits the files should have. > I would not say that I object to the idea of having this option > in syslogd, but I'd think people would be much better off using > newsyslog to create any of the files.
Agreed. Both have their place. The syslog man page should refer to the advantages of newsyslog for this purpose. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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