Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 09:03:26 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.8 syslogd.c Message-ID: <20060306223326.GZ917@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <p06230917c03221d8700d@[128.113.24.47]> References: <200603061036.k26AaXgt047115@repoman.freebsd.org> <p06230917c03221d8700d@[128.113.24.47]>
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--2zue9K3IhLF/3KAd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 6 March 2006 at 12:33:57 -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 10:36 AM +0000 3/6/06, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: >> pjd 2006-03-06 10:36:33 UTC >> >> FreeBSD src repository >> >> Modified files: >> usr.sbin/syslogd syslogd.8 syslogd.c >> Log: >> By default (for security reasons) syslogd(8) doesn't create >> log files when they don't exist, but sometimes its quite >> useful (eg. we use non-standard log files and memory backed >> /var/, which is populated on boot). >> >> Add -C option which tells syslogd(8) to create log files if >> they don't exist. > > Hmm. Note that newsyslog includes an option to automatically > create files. Presumably the log files created by syslogd would > need to be rotated, in which case they'll already have entries > in newsyslog.conf. > > The advantage of creating them in newsyslog is that newsyslog > knows what owner, group, and chmod bits the files should have. > I would not say that I object to the idea of having this option > in syslogd, but I'd think people would be much better off using > newsyslog to create any of the files. Agreed. Both have their place. The syslog man page should refer to the advantages of newsyslog for this purpose. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --2zue9K3IhLF/3KAd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEDLi2IubykFB6QiMRAiVrAJ44P2i1cYdNSq3BIziYkicuR5zmOQCcDlq1 0ebjVGPz4A4zzLpojUTOUsQ= =UMHR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2zue9K3IhLF/3KAd--
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