Bug#3990: xdm-errors location not what FSSTND says
cas@taz.net.au (Craig Sanders) wrote on 04.08.96 in <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.94.960804114034.6454N-100000@siva.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?
That's probably why the next version of the standard no longer talks about
xdm-errors.
MfG Kai
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