On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > could critique my printcap. But in the course of this,
> > I noticed a bunch of errors messages which seem to indicate
> > bug to me. A number of times a temp file
> >
> > /var/spool/lpd/<queue name>/temp<random string>
> >
> > is tried to be renamed to /var/log/lp-errs. The reason
> > for failure is permission denied. The file in fact already
> > exists. To me, it makes sense to try and append messages
> > to this file, but not to rename the file to this final
> > lp-errs file. Anyway, printcap follows .sig.
> ARGH!!! ARGH!!!
Is this where I say oops? :-)
> OK, here is the problem. The log file truncation code
> a) creates a temp file.
> b) copies the END of the log file to the temp file
> c) renames the temp file as the log file.
>
> Why? Because I did not want to truncate and
> then rewrite the log file and then remove the
> temp file.
>
> But you have, for some reason that escapes me :-)
> have your log files in /var/log/lpd/xxx... and the rename
> fails across file systems.
I just started with what Debian provided me with, but if I
was supposed to put those log files somewhere else, maybe
Craig should add a note somewhere. Or maybe he did and I didn't
find it.
Gord
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