From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 6 12:54: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.skylink.it (ns.skylink.it [194.177.113.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70300154FC for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 12:53:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hibma@skylink.it) Received: from heidi.plazza.it (va-176.skylink.it [194.185.55.176]) by ns.skylink.it (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA30596; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 21:53:54 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heidi.plazza.it (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA03590; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:34:57 GMT X-No-Spam: Neither the receipients nor the senders email address(s) are to be used for Unsolicited (Commercial) Email without the explicit written consent of either party; as a per-message fee is incurred for inbound and outbound traffic to the originator. Posted-Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:34:57 GMT Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 20:34:57 +0200 (CEST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@heidi.plazza.it Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: Andreas Klemm Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , 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 In-Reply-To: <19990906200905.A1911@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doing it for the cron file, yes, no probs, sounds like a great idea, but for the rest of the files I'd leave it as is. Let's have a look at it later on when we have some idea of what things break when changing names and loations of log files. Ok? Nick On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Andreas Klemm wrote: > On Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 11:32:35AM +0200, Nick Hibma wrote: > > -/var/cron/log 600 3 100 * Z > > +/var/log/cron.log 600 3 100 * Z > > /var/log/amd.log 664 7 100 * Z > > /var/log/kerberos.log 664 7 100 * Z > > /var/log/lpd-errs 664 7 100 * Z > > Would it make sense (while you're there), to get rid of the ".log" > suffix of certain log files like cron.log, amd.log, etc ... > > I think the fact that files live under /var/"log" should be enough > to tell people, "here live logfiles". > > Since those files are rotated automatically by newsyslog there > shouldn't be any reason to say "no, this breaks scripts", since > the OS provides the newsyslog facility, so we can change it there > as well... > > What do you think ? > > > -- > Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas > http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html > powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD > Get new songs from our band: http://www.freebsd.org/~andreas/64bits/index.html > > -- e-Mail: hibma@skylink.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message