From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 13 13:23:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA09038 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 13:23:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA08732 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 13:21:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00336; Wed, 13 May 1998 21:00:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199805132000.VAA00336@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: Matthew Cashdollar cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why /var/log/ppp.log In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 13 May 1998 11:52:42 CDT." <19980513115242.A10613@rfcnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 21:00:15 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Why does PPP use /var/log/ppp.log and/or /var/log/slip.log by default. Doesn't > the directory name 'log' imply that the files stored there are logfiles?? > > I always rename /var/log/ppp.log to /var/log/ppp -- just wondering if there is > some reason that it is named differently than the other log files. When I originally picked up ppp, it used this name.... when it was syslogd()ified, it kept the name. There's no good reason (except that it's now what everyone knows). > -- > Matthew Cashdollar > RF Communications, Inc. -- http://www.rfcinc.com -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message