FWIW, the log directory in Arch Linux is /var/log/backuppc, and it's not
a symlink.
On 11/3/22 14:04, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote at about 13:58:26 -0500 on Thursday, November 3, 2022:
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 1:39 PM<backu...@kosowsky.org> wrote:
> >
> > Also, /var/log/BackupPC is a weird location unless it is a link to
> > something like TopDir/log in which case it should contain files of
> > form LOG.z and LOG.N.z -- but again these are not the relevant log
> > files.
> >
> > Reading the documentation would be a helpful thing to do -- it was
> > written for a purpose!
>
> The log location is almost certain a distribution-packaging choice, so
> along with recommending reading documentation you might also point out
> that the source documentation may not match what is actually installed
> and running.
>
I think it must be a link to TopDir/log since in my understanding of
the BackupPC codebase, references are relative to TopDir -- unless the distro
decided to essentially rewrite tons of core code. My guess is the
distro wanted to put a link under /var/log so that newbie users could
find the log files even if they are not aware of the backuppc dir structure.
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