Re: Review question about /var/log/* files.

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Patrice Dumas wrote:
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 %
...
I think that the log should never be removed automatically,

+1. That was the general consensus of the PC discussion around the general issue of "no unowned files", that log files are a reasonable exception and should be unowned (and not removed on pkg erasure). Unfortunately, no policy statement came of out that.

-- Rex

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