Review question about /var/log/* files.

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 10:21 -0500, John Dennis wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 15:45 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > Another question would be: Why does a service need a separate log file
> > system at all? IMO, it should be preferable to have services use syslogd
> > (when applicable).
> 
> You want separate log files because some services log more than an
> occasional message and because you want all these messages grouped
> together. Email logging is a good example.
no disagreement. 

> Once you establish a need for independent log files then FHS requires
> independent directories owned by the service.
Hmm, that's news to me - Any pointer?

All I can find[1] is this:

/var/log : Log files and directories
Purpose
This directory contains miscellaneous log files. Most logs must be
written to this directory or an appropriate subdirectory.

Ralf

[1]
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARLOGLOGFILESANDDIRECTORIES



>  We have a goal to be FHS compliant.