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Re: NEVER remove log files without asking



On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 07:35:35PM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 05:30:30PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > That's like saying "the sun rises because it's round".  /tmp gets cleaned
> > because there's a policy that says "/tmp gets cleaned".  Similarly, there's
> > a policy that says "logs get removed".  It's probably not completely clear,
> > and could do with a clarification, about whether that only includes logs
> > generated as part of a default installation, or whether it should be all
> > logs that might have been created by the package during it's lifetime.
> 
> Question: apache logs rotated by logrotate using the config installed by
> apache do belong to which ?

Interesting one.  I'd say that as they were created by Apache, and live in
Apache's log directory, they're Apache's.

That brings up another point -- logrotate may remove logs the admin wanted
to keep.  Another RC bug report to be made, I guess.

- Matt

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