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Date:      Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:21:21 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: request for review: move of /var/cron/log to /var/log/cron.log
Message-ID:  <v04210100b3f9ee580a23@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <19990906200905.A1911@titan.klemm.gtn.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909051129490.1825-100000@heidi.plazza.it> <19990906200905.A1911@titan.klemm.gtn.com>

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At 8:09 PM +0200 9/6/99, 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".

I'd prefer to keep the '.log' prefix.  It doesn't cause any problem
at all whatsoever, and it's helpful to distinguish log files from
other files (or directories) which can end up in /var/log.


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Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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