Re: Cron logs in /var/cron/log instead of /var/log/cron?

2016-10-03 Thread Kenneth Gober
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 12:27 AM, <bytevolc...@safe-mail.net> wrote: > Is there any harm or issue with setting the log location > of cron logs to /var/log/cron instead, or is it best to leave it > in /var/cron/log? I've moved cron logs to /var/log/cron on some of my own systems,

Re: Cron logs in /var/cron/log instead of /var/log/cron?

2016-10-02 Thread Theo de Raadt
> > That's the kind of comment that leads me to take bug reports less > > seriously in the future... diagnostic logs which would have solved > > the problem, will have been lost INTENTIONALLY. And then we get > > asked for help? Crazy. > > > > Thank you for that information; The impression I

Re: Cron logs in /var/cron/log instead of /var/log/cron?

2016-10-02 Thread bytevolcano
erely historic then. > > > Is there any harm or issue with setting the log location > > of cron logs to /var/log/cron instead, or is it best to leave it > > in /var/cron/log? > > You can do whatever you want. > > Before we talk about changing this, we must know w

Re: Cron logs in /var/cron/log instead of /var/log/cron?

2016-10-02 Thread Theo de Raadt
ars actually. Back in the CSRG days, a lot of new daemon imports got their own /var directories for reasons we can only guess at. > Is there any harm or issue with setting the log location > of cron logs to /var/log/cron instead, or is it best to leave it > in /var/cron/log? You can

Cron logs in /var/cron/log instead of /var/log/cron?

2016-10-02 Thread bytevolcano
and not /var/log/cron by default? To me it makes more sense to have it all in /var/log/, but given it has been the default for several years, is there a reason (other than historic) that the default is like that? Is there any harm or issue with setting the log location of cron logs to /var/log/cron