On Fri, 15 May 2009, Arjen de Korte wrote: > Citeren Daniel O'Connor <[email protected]>: > >> Well, one thing is that it *will* cause existing installations to > >> break, where upslog is started as 'root' and the NUT user doesn't > >> have write permissions to the log file. Obviously, send upslog a > >> SIGHUP in such case would effectively kill it (because it can't > >> reopen the log), but I know of at least one distribution (SuSE) > >> that had a default setup exactly like that. We've seen people > >> complain about this behavior before, so in all likelihood, it is > >> being used in the field. > > > > That seems broken anyway, either it expands forever and you run out > > of space or you try and rotate it and upslog stops. > > If you log a few dozen bytes to the logs once every five minutes > (which boils down to about 1 kB/hr), realistically this may never > happen, so it is questionable that this is ever going to cause a > problem.
<shrugs> depends on your /var. If it WAS a small flash embedded system 60Mb a year would not be pocket change. We still have some systems in the field with 256Mb /var's that are >50% full. > > IMO the SuSE package maintainer should change it to either run > > upslog as root or make a new directory iun /var/log owned but the > > NUT user.. > > The SuSE package maintainer did the only sensible thing here and > removed upslog from the default startup script and leave the > configuration to the user. One shouldn't run upslog without a reason. I guess so, but sensible defaults are a good idea. (ie you shouldn't have to do more than enable it and pick the format to get it running). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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