Doing it for the cron file, yes, no probs, sounds like a great idea,
but for the rest of the files I'd leave it as is. Let's have a look at
it later on when we have some idea of what things break when changing
names and loations of log files.
Ok?
Nick
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 11:32:35AM +0200, Nick Hibma wrote:
> > -/var/cron/log 600 3 100 * Z
> > +/var/log/cron.log 600 3 100 * Z
> > /var/log/amd.log 664 7 100 * Z
> > /var/log/kerberos.log 664 7 100 * Z
> > /var/log/lpd-errs 664 7 100 * Z
>
> Would it make sense (while you're there), to get rid of the ".log"
> suffix of certain log files like cron.log, amd.log, etc ...
>
> I think the fact that files live under /var/"log" should be enough
> to tell people, "here live logfiles".
>
> Since those files are rotated automatically by newsyslog there
> shouldn't be any reason to say "no, this breaks scripts", since
> the OS provides the newsyslog facility, so we can change it there
> as well...
>
> What do you think ?
>
>
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