On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 03:46:26PM -0600, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Steve Langasek [2010-11-02 9:56 -0700]:
> > Does this proposal include keeping /var/log/auth.log separate? There are
> > several logs that are currently written to disk synchronously that lose this
> > characteristic if we do "one big logfile"; namely, /var/log/auth.log,
> > /var/log/mail.err, and /var/log/news/news.{crit,err}, each of which we have
> > a good reason to want to be recorded in the event of a system crash.> I totally agree, and I didn't intend to remove these sensitive ones. > I'd prefer keeping the "catch-all" /var/log/syslog and drop the > duplicated more special ones, as things like d-i and logcheck depend > on this, but not the others: > > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/natty/rsyslog/natty/revision/35 > Please yell if you have any objections. Well, as I wrote in https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-November/031905.html I don't agree with this way of doing it, but that's a matter of opinion and why it's a configuration file. :) This is certainly a significant improvement over what was there previously, thanks! Should there be a corresponding change to the default logrotate policy, to avoid creating 0-byte log files that mislead the admin? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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