On Mon, 2019-04-01 at 14:53 +0200, Georg Henzler wrote: > > ...I wonder how many log analysis > > scripts will need to be updated by downstream consumers > > I'm also a bit worried about that. I think the initial reason for > error.log to be named like this is that httpd also uses error.log - > I'd > be fine to leave it error.log as well (given that the most common > reason > to look at this file is probably still analysing errors...)
You are probably right about the historical reasons for using 'error.log' . Additionally, the log format specification follows the LogFormat and CustomLog directives from httpd https://sling.apache.org/documentation/development/client-request-logging.html Thanks, Robert