From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 5 14: 5:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt010nb9.san.rr.com [204.210.12.185]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FAE915098 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 14:05:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA84081; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 14:05:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37D2DB01.58F5C814@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 14:05:05 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Hibma Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT Mailing list , n_hibma@heidi.plazza.it.jrc.it Subject: Re: request for review: move of /var/cron/log to /var/log/cron.log References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nick Hibma wrote: > > > > Please review the following patch to get all the log files in one place. > > > The commit will be accompanied by a HEADS UP. If no one objects I will > > > commit this in a couple of days. > > > > The only thing I don't like about this is that it introduces a point of > > incompatibility between FreeBSD and other unices, and I'm not sure the > > benefit is worth it. I would bring up the idea of creating a symlink in > > /var/log, but I know that the purists would never approve of that... > > What about the other way around? I could definitely live with that. I'm really not _against_ the change, and I do see the point of making things consistent. But I'm coming from the standpoint of someone who's trying to introduce freebsd into a previously all-sun shop, and every single little thing that's different gets me a funny look and N minutes of explanation as to why we do things the way we do. Personally I've taken to symlink'ing /var/adm/messages on the sun boxes, so having a symlink the other way around in this case is fine with me. Hoping this makes some kind of sense, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message