Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 20:34:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Nick Hibma <hibma@skylink.it> To: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, FreeBSD CURRENT Mailing list <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, n_hibma@heidi.plazza.it.jrc.it Subject: Re: request for review: move of /var/cron/log to /var/log/cron.log Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909062032520.3511-100000@heidi.plazza.it> In-Reply-To: <19990906200905.A1911@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
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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 ? > > > -- > Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas > http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html > powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD > Get new songs from our band: http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/64bits/index.html > > -- e-Mail: hibma@skylink.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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