On 17/08/2004 Matthew Palmer wrote: > > 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? /tmp is (as the name indicates) meant for temporary files, so everyone should expect them to be gone after reboot and/or a tmp-clean process, introduced by anything. by contrast, /var/log is for logfiles, and logfile policy is a task for admins, not for package maintainers. as already mentioned, i'd appreciate to have a policy that forbids logdir removal if subdirectories exist. this would be something reasonable, and more compatible with admin's personal logpolicy. bye jonas
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