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

[kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)]

gaertnem@ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Michael Gaertner)  wrote on 07.08.96 in <[🔎] Pine.SOL.3.93.960807152223.4434B-100000@sun2.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>:

> On 4 Aug 1996, Kai Henningsen wrote:
>
> > 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.

Or, to put it another way: IMHO, this was a bug in the FSSTND.

> Don't no bout that but I think xfs and xdm should log errors the same way:
>
> /etc/X11/xfs/config: "error-file = /var/lib/xfs/xfs-errors

But error logs should not be in /var/lib. They should be in /var/log.

IMHO.


MfG Kai