garden variety of /var/log/* naming patterns
Policy says:
Log files should usually be named `/var/log/<package>.log'.
However I notice the word log is already in that directory's name.
Anyway, I notice there are a whole garden variety of naming patterns.
$ ls -F /var/log|perl -ne 'print unless (/\.(gz|\d)$/||/\/$/)'|column
XFree86.0.log kdm.log mail.log uucp.log
aptitude kern.log mail.warn wtmp
auth.log lastlog messages wwwoffle-htdig.log
boot lilo_log.12767 ppp-connect-errors wwwoffle-upgrade.log
daemon.log lp-acct ppp-ipupdown.log xdm.log
debug lp-errs scrollkeeper.log xfs.log
dmesg lpr.log setuid.changes
faillog mail.err syslog
fontconfig.log mail.info user.log
Yes, many due to historical reasons.
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