>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 ?

   I think they should all have .log since there can be subdirectories and it
makes the files more easily identifiable.

-DG

David Greenman
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