Hello Matthew, Am 2005-04-05 09:56:10, schrieb Matthew Palmer: > 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... Allways the same... I know many *NIX $USER, which all the time as root. Why ? - Sound does not work as $USER, can't access FDD, can't mount CD, can not access the internet... Argh !!! - CAN'T USE THERE BRAIN !!! I do not know, why such $USER exist! Maybe a M$ sickness? > > 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/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ WOW !!! - never read the manpage !!! :-) > 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. OK > - Matt Good night Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/3/88452356 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)
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