From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 6 14:15:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA493154F0 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:15:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA03639; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:12:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199909062112.OAA03639@implode.root.com> To: Andreas Klemm Cc: Nick Hibma , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , FreeBSD CURRENT Mailing list , n_hibma@heidi.plazza.it Subject: Re: request for review: move of /var/cron/log to /var/log/cron.log In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Sep 1999 20:09:05 +0200." <19990906200905.A1911@titan.klemm.gtn.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 14:12:53 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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 ? I think they should all have .log since there can be subdirectories and it makes the files more easily identifiable. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message