On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:17:22PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > Note that there was a relevant thread on -devel around about last > October. Someone complained that their thesis was in /var/log/apache/ Stupidity like that must not go unpunished. It's worse than leaving your pr0n in /tmp and then wondering why it goes bye-bye on the next reboot -- leaving something in /var/log means you have to become *root* to store it there... > and was deleted when they purged the package. As such, you might > consider something like rm -f /var/log/apache/{access,error}.log*; > rmdir /var/log/apache/ instead of rm -fr /var/log/apache/. rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty /var/log/apache/ otherwise your maintainer scripts will go blergh every time someone has decided to leave their thesis in your log directory. But yes, it's not a bad idea to clean up just those files your package is likely to have created during it's existence. - Matt
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