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Re: NEVER remove log files without asking



On 17-Aug-04, 18:19 (CDT), John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> wrote: 
> Matt writes:
> > The admin said --purge, Apache did that.
> 
> Dpkg did (by way of the maintainer scripts).  Apache was not involved.

No, he's saying the *admin* did it. You said it's okay that logrotate
removes files, because logrotate is under admin control. Well, so is
dpkg: you said "--purge", and it did. If you don't want files and
directories belonging to a package purged, use "--remove".

Steve

-- 
Steve Greenland
    The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
    system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
    world.       -- seen on the net



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