Arthur Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Addition to section "4.8 Log files":
> ---------- > A better scheme is to use logrotate, a GPL'd program developed > by Red Hat, which centralizes log management. It has both a > configuration file (/etc/logrotate.conf) and a directory where > packages can drop logrotation info (/etc/logrotate.d). > + > +In config-file state, the /etc/logrotate.d/<pkgname> file should > +be suffixed with ".disabled" (this is required if other > + packages use the same logfile). > --------- > Have a look at Bug#77314 for an example of the breakage that not > doing so can cause. This looks like a rather ugly solution. Why not add new a directive to the logrotate.d files that checks for the existence of files so that we can do something similar to the init.d scripts, or even better, a directive that actually queries the status of a package. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
