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 would not put it so strictly, I'd prefer handling this on a case-by-case basis. 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). [But more annoying than /var/log/* files, are package leaving trash behind elsewhere in /var/* upon package removal] Ralf -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
