ghosting files with variable names

[Michael A. Peters]

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 08:18 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > 
> > That actually belongs in a packages man page (or other documentation).
> 
> That's exactly why it's nicer to have it in rpm -ql
> 
> file location is something chosen by the packager at spec time, man 
> pages often reflect other defaults (when they are up to date -> cf 
> localized pages), and there is no canonical other place to search for it.

find /var/log -name file.log

LSB I believe states that log files go into /var/log anyway -
so /var/log is the proper place to look for log files, putting log files
in other places would (imho) be a bug.