Review question about /var/log/* files.

[Rex Dieter]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:28:37PM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 07:50 -0500, Steve Grubb wrote:
>>> On Friday 09 February 2007 06:30, Phil Knirsch wrote:
>>>> Should the package own this file (using %ghost voodoo) or not?
>>> What about the rotated files?
>> If you know their exact names ..., why not also %ghost them?
> 
> The local admin could have made changes to the logrotate rules.
> 
>> On one hand, you often don't want to loose your logs just because you
>> had to temporarily remove a package during an update (make them %
...
> I think that the log should never be removed automatically,

+1.  That was the general consensus of the PC discussion around the 
general issue of "no unowned files", that log files are a reasonable 
exception and should be unowned (and not removed on pkg erasure). 
Unfortunately, no policy statement came of out that.

-- Rex