From owner-cvs-all Mon Mar 11 16:25:34 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E350437B400; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:25:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g2C0PRi50787; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:25:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:25:26 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Greg Lehey Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile newsyslog.conf syslog.conf In-Reply-To: <20020312103527.W36158@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 11 March 2002 at 11:34:57 -0800, Robert Watson wrote: > > rwatson 2002/03/11 11:34:57 PST > > > > Modified files: > > etc Makefile newsyslog.conf syslog.conf > > Log: > > Turns out everyone is a lot lazier than I thought. Spell > > 'authentication.log' as 'auth.log'. > > OpenBSD calls this file authlog. Is there really sufficient reason for > being gratuitously different? I was unaware they had such a file. The primary choices seemed to be, based on existing filenames in /var/log: auth.log auth authentication.log authentication The recent trend has been to append '.log' to the end of the files, so I went to authentication.log. It was later pointed out that people writing scripts couldn't use tab completion, and I also observed that the name of the facility in syslog was AUTH, and went to auth.log. There's no precedent for log files without a '.' between the category and the "log" string in FreeBSD. FWIW, here's a survey of other OS's I had on hand: BSD/OS /var/log/secure RedHat /var/log/secure NetBSD /var/log/authlog Debian /var/log/auth.log Solaris /var/log/authlog TCP Wrappers installation /var/log/auth.log Various other Solaris /var/log/auth.log Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message