The point is that some people like an audit trail. The audit trail for some people involves remote logging of syslog messages to a log host. This would include when packages are installed.
-adrian On 21 December 2013 15:49, Steve Kargl <s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 06:47:01PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 03:44:11PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: >> > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 06:29:17PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: >> > > In article <20131221230448.ga61...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>, >> > > Steve Kargl writes: >> > > >> > > >Other than the noise in /var/log/message, what does this provide >> > > >that 'pkg info' doesn't! >> > > >> > > A record of when packages were installed and removed. >> > > >> > >> > The date/time a package is installed should be recorded >> > in the pkg database and be available with 'pkg info -f'. >> > Of course, it appeat that this information s not properly >> > recorded. >> > >> >> Because databases are never corruptible? >> > > /var/log/message never gets corrupted? > > -- > Steve > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"