Review question about /var/log/* files.

[Callum Lerwick]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 15:37 +0100, Phil Knirsch wrote:
> 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.

I got bit on my server, which runs debian. (changing to CentOS Real Soon
Now...) When I moved it over to Apache 2 from 1.3, I left 1.3 installed
until it worked. Once I got everything going under Apache 2, I dpkg
--purged Apache 1.3, and to my surprise, it nuked several years worth
of access log files. I wanted to keep them around for running
statistics and such. Oh well, live and learn. Thanks, debian...
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