"Peter Lister, Cranfield Computer Centre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Given that everything
> else logs in /var/afs/logs, why couldn't backup/butc leave their log files
> there too?
Most of the server processes, including the buserver leave their log
files in /usr/afs/logs. Butc puts them in /usr/afs/backup instead.
Yes, this is inconsistent, but it made more sense in the earlier
versions of AFS when /usr/afs/backup held the backup database. Tape
coordinator machines only need to be an AFS client to run butc, so
it's not clear that they will have a /usr/afs/logs directory. On the
other hand, all coordinators used to build a database of dumps in
/usr/afs/backup. So that seemed like a logical place to put the logs.
Now that buserver maintains a central backup database, it looks a
little odd to have /usr/afs/backup created just for two log files.
Joe Jackson,
File Systems Product Support,
Transarc Corp.
