Review question about /var/log/* files.

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Fri Feb 9 13:53:36 UTC 2007


On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:28:37PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 07:50 -0500, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > On Friday 09 February 2007 06:30, Phil Knirsch wrote:
> > > Should the package own this file (using %ghost voodoo) or not?
> > 
> > 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.

> On one hand, you often don't want to loose your logs just because you
> had to temporarily remove a package during an update (make them %
> config .. ?) on the other hand, probably everybody having upgraded a
> Linux system or having used Linux over longer period is fighting with
> stray logs having accumulated (and other files below /var)

I think that the log should never be removed automatically, it should be
left to the admin. If the package is removed they shouldn't grow anymore
anyway.

--
Pat




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