From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 5 12:33:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.ihug.co.nz (tk1.ihug.co.nz [203.29.160.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA83514F56 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 1999 12:33:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mmuir@es.co.nz) Received: from es.co.nz (p12-max9.dun.ihug.co.nz [216.132.34.140]) by smtp1.ihug.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id HAA06274 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 07:32:06 +1200 Message-ID: <37D2C534.F3D61A73@es.co.nz> Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 07:32:04 +1200 From: Mike Muir X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD CURRENT Mailing list Subject: Re: request for review: move of /var/cron/log to /var/log/cron.log References: <37D29DD1.8FD9398@gorean.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug wrote: > > Nick Hibma wrote: > > > > Please review the following patch to get all the log files in one place. > > The commit will be accompanied by a HEADS UP. If no one objects I will > > commit this in a couple of days. > > The only thing I don't like about this is that it introduces a point of > incompatibility between FreeBSD and other unices, and I'm not sure the > benefit is worth it. I would bring up the idea of creating a symlink in > /var/log, but I know that the purists would never approve of that... Whats wrong with FreeBSD going to the fore as far as common sense goes? Are there standards that specify the location of cron's logs? So why not.. maybe other unices will do the same when they see FreeBSD doing it :D mike. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message