Hi,
I'm going through some old outstanding bug reports of mine. This one
has apparently not been tackled yet.
On 2008-12-10 17:42 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Sven Joachim schrieb:
>> Package: rsyslog
>> Version: 3.18.5-1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Reading /etc/rsyslog.conf:
>>
>> ,----
>> | # First some standard log files. Log by facility.
>> | # [...]
>> | mail.* -/var/log/mail.log
>> | user.* -/var/log/user.log
>> | | #
>> | # Logging for the mail system. Split it up so that
>> | # it is easy to write scripts to parse these files.
>> | #
>> | mail.info -/var/log/mail.info
>> | mail.warn -/var/log/mail.warn
>> | mail.err /var/log/mail.err
>> `----
>
> This has mostly historical reasons. I copied the old sysklogd
> syslog.conf almost verbatim, to be as compatible as possible and not
> break any existing setups (like log checkers and stuff, which might
> look for those files.)
> So, for lenny, I definitely don't want to change that.
> But it is something that could be looked into early during the squeeze
> cycle.
> Such a change though should probably be discussed on debian-devel first.
Would you like to bring up such a discussion now?
Cheers,
Sven
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