From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 6 15:35:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 207D91559B for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 15:35:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA34550; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:20:46 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19990906200905.A1911@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <19990906200905.A1911@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 18:21:21 -0400 To: Andreas Klemm From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: request for review: move of /var/cron/log to /var/log/cron.log Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 8:09 PM +0200 9/6/99, 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". I'd prefer to keep the '.log' prefix. It doesn't cause any problem at all whatsoever, and it's helpful to distinguish log files from other files (or directories) which can end up in /var/log. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message