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Re: NEVER remove log files without asking



On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:52:02PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> 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?

Perhaps don't --purge the package without having first made a copy of them?

- Matt

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