On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 16:37 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 10:21 -0500, John Dennis wrote: > > 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. 'Requires' was too strong, here are the reasons it's recommended, some of it from FHS, some as a consequence of SELinux. FHS requires independent package subdirs for /var/lib, /var/opt. FHS recommends independent package subdirs for /etc, /etc/opt, /opt, /usr/share, /var/run, /usr/lib The spirit of FHS is if a package has more than a few files it should be locating those files in subdirs owned by the package. You are absolutely correct, in the case of /var/log it is not mandated a per package subdir be used but when the entire FHS is taken as a whole you can see it follows as a recommendation. Also, SELinux policy prefers package files be located in directories owned by the package as it makes file labeling easier to specify and maintain. -- 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
