Review question about /var/log/* files.

[Phil Knirsch]

Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Friday 09 February 2007 08:53, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>>>> What about the rotated files?
>>> If you know their exact names ..., why not also %ghost them?
>> The local admin could have made changes to the logrotate rules.
> 
> Right, that was my point in mentioning rotated logs. The admin could have set 
> the number of kept logs to 20. So, the question is why should 1 file be 
> ghosted when you have this open ended rotate question?
> 

Thats a real good point. No package pwning^H^H^H^H^H^H owning any 
logfiles in /var/log/ sounds more and more reasonable. Directories there 
are a different matter as they clearly are connected to a specific package.

Read ya, Phil

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