Re: Bug#3990: xdm-errors location not what FSSTND says

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Michael Gaertner wrote:

> Package: xbase
> Version: 3.1.2-9
> 
> FSSTND R1.2 writes in chap. 5.3.5 to place xdm-errors in 
> /var/lib/xdm/. This is not the location xdm-errors get logged by default
> in above package.
> 
> Suggestion: change /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config in line
> "DisplayManager.errorLogFile:" to 
> 
> "DisplayManager.errorLogFile: /var/lib/xdm/xdm-errors"

What's so special about xdm that it's error log files should go in
/var/lib?

Isn't /var/log (or subdirectories of /var/log) the right place for all
log files?


Craig