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Date:      Thu, 23 Nov 2000 12:05:28 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Cc:        Ulrich_Gruenebaum <grueneba@luzi.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Vinum setup questions
Message-ID:  <20001123120528.R83853@echunga.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001110235734.B75251@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>; from cjclark@reflexnet.net on Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:57:34PM -0800
References:  <200011101400.PAA15973@luzi.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> <20001110235734.B75251@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>

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On Friday, 10 November 2000 at 23:57:34 -0800, Crist J . Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:00:47PM +0100, Ulrich_Gruenebaum" wrote:
>> - The default location for the vinum logfile
>> (vinum(8), section "LOG FILE") seems to be
>> /var/log/vinum_history, not /var/tmp/... . The
>> logfile should also be mentioned in vinum(8),
>> section FILES.
>
> Oops, Greg, this is confused a bit in my docs too. In "LOG FILE" on
> vinum(8),
>
>   LOG FILE
>        vinum maintains a log file, by default /var/tmp/vinum_history, in which
>        it keeps track of the commands issued to vinum. You can override the name
>        of this file by setting the environment variable VINUM_HISTORY to the
>        name of the file.
>
>
> But then farther down,
>
>
>   ENVIRONMENT
>
>        VINUM_HISTORY The name of the log file, by default /var/log/vinum_histo-
>                ry.

Oops.  It used to be in /var/tmp, but that was a possible security
breach, so we moved it to /var/log, except for the first reference.
I've fixed it now.  Thanks for the heads up.

Greg
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