Re: NEVER remove log files without asking
On 2004-08-15, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 23:45, Michael Ablassmeier <abi@grinser.de> wrote:
>> On 2004-08-15, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
>> > No. You should remove the default log files only. Other log files are
>> > the administrator's business.
>>
>> if you want your Logfiles to be save, make backups (thats also
>> administrators business).
>
> Yes of course. Instead of backups being used for hardware failures or human
> errors we can use them to work around stubborn package maintainers who claim
> that removing non-package data is not a bug and happily create packages that
> trash important data.
since /var/log/apache is created while installation time, i expect it to
be removed on --purge (with all its contents) and therefore i place my
personal logfiles in $whatever Directory. Same for exim. To reason to
blame the Maintainer(s), though.
bye
- michael
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