Review question about /var/log/* files.

[Daniel J Walsh]

John Dennis wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 15:45 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>   
>> Another question would be: Why does a service need a separate log file
>> system at all? IMO, it should be preferable to have services use syslogd
>> (when applicable).
>>     
>
> You want separate log files because some services log more than an
> occasional message and because you want all these messages grouped
> together. Email logging is a good example.
>
> Once you establish a need for independent log files then FHS requires
> independent directories owned by the service. We have a goal to be FHS
> compliant.
>   
Also independent directories make SELinux a lot happier.