Re: NEVER remove log files without asking
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:19, Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> wrote:
> On 15-Aug-04, 16:28 (CDT), Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:
> > I've certainly purged Apache in the past and been extremely irritated to
> > find my logs gone, too--for me, Apache logs (including default ones) are
> > like user data, not to be deleted lightly. In retrospect, I should have
> > --removed the package and deleted the old configuration by hand.
>
> Or stuck your valuable user data someplace other than /var/log...
So logs that are considered valuable should not be in /var/log?
What if I consider all logs to be valuable? Should /var/log be empty?
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