backu...@kosowsky.org wrote at about 15:04:42 -0400 on Thursday, November 3, 2022: > 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. >
I was wrong here. LogDir is configurable in config.pl which then overrides the defaults in Lib.pm (as well as in config.p)where LogDir is defined as TopDir/LogDir. _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
