Re: NEVER remove log files without asking
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 03:20:09PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 10:47:09PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 06:26:00PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > > Is it wrong for package foobar to 'rm -rf /var/cache/foobar' when it
> > > is purged?
> >
> > Yes. Blindly removing any folder is bad.
>
> So rm -rf /var/log/apache/* is OK then? If not, why is it OK for programs
> to clean /tmp?
That would be because it's /tmp. /var/log is not /tmp/log.
Hamish
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