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. -- John Dennis <jdennis@xxxxxxxxxx> Learn. Network. Experience open source. Red Hat Summit San Diego | May 9-11, 2007 Learn more: http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2007 -- 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