Re: Rejected: Bug#169600: Policy should mandate a place for init.d script to log errors to

2008-06-09 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: This proposal asks that Policy mandate a location to which init scripts must log verbose errors. The original proposal was made in 2002 and there was little subsequent discussion in 2003. This Policy proposal is also not currently widely implemented in the archive and hence

Rejected: Bug#169600: Policy should mandate a place for init.d script to log errors to

2008-06-06 Thread Russ Allbery
This proposal asks that Policy mandate a location to which init scripts must log verbose errors. The original proposal was made in 2002 and there was little subsequent discussion in 2003. This Policy proposal is also not currently widely implemented in the archive and hence would be a change ahea

Bug#169600: Policy should mandate a place for init.d script to log errors to

2003-04-03 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 12:18:27PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:48:55 +0100, > >> Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > However, even if it's common sense, it might be necessary to > > introduce also a convention regarding error checking an

Bug#169600: Policy should mandate a place for init.d script to log errors to

2003-03-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
>> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:48:55 +0100, >> Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > However, even if it's common sense, it might be necessary to > introduce also a convention regarding error checking and > logging. Don't we already have /var/log as a recommended place

Bug#169600: Policy should mandate a place for init.d script to log errors to

2002-11-18 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.7.1 Severity: wishlist Currently the Debian policy mandates regarding scripts a few conventions including which arguments to accept and how to ouput the results: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s10.4 However, even if it's common sense,