-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 13 August 2019 02:24:34 deloptes wrote: > [...] >> I am not aware of any program I've been using >> for the past 15y that would have a problem writing in /var/log > > Then tell me how fetchmail, procmail, clamav or spamd running as me, can > keep their logs in /var/log, the permissions just aren't there after a > reboot.
Aren't all four of those system services; with their own system users, with their own directories in /var/log (or well, at least by default)? >> [...] >> Logrotate also does not need to be modified - only for your custom >> stuff, so it is expected and desired and it is easy to adjust. > > Maybe for someone intimately fam with how it works, not so easy on a > onetime basis after an install. One doesn't get familiar enough, nor > manage to commit it to short term memory. Assuming a Debian-standard /etc/logrotate.conf; it should give one the necessary examples to set up a functioning schedule for things in their $HOME (or other places). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEBcqaUD8uEzVNxUrujhHd8xJ5ooEFAl1Shd8ACgkQjhHd8xJ5 ooHWAQf/fFpJq38BCynCpMptc307adtIjGzh2+eoYKplvXgV5EgrundNCVvul0xX V8YS+V2ycvVLAKguM/Sq0AluXCvRvfGfBn10mT+ZJlpG5i7ogvN6GjnH68aQN/Hg WQ1yT950jYXgOJ1lNhNOBK5ufekEFcl3Fz7nzbpJtew8pqznZFOLSZaWkBZtciTY gVR1htNNBsUKPCD306Y0z5EMUsobCty3rmrhGA4ENnZLTPV1dN/wYrdNvVvHaxTA qeFQmRVTofUl9WllgyfwFVPG+3BYGN0CSiu8YgnOF7z9nyiCH/lJLgx+y8PZnc4S 4iRwEA3hiXSglya2oCsluWtUbpsdCA== =Sypc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- |_|O|_| |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281
