On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 10:21 -0500, John Dennis wrote: > 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. no disagreement. > Once you establish a need for independent log files then FHS requires > independent directories owned by the service. Hmm, that's news to me - Any pointer? All I can find[1] is this: /var/log : Log files and directories Purpose This directory contains miscellaneous log files. Most logs must be written to this directory or an appropriate subdirectory. Ralf [1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARLOGLOGFILESANDDIRECTORIES > We have a goal to be FHS compliant. -- 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
