Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:25:26 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile newsyslog.conf syslog.conf Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020311191352.50635B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20020312103527.W36158@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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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
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