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,
> > 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
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
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
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
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