On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:02:30 -0800 Matt Taggart <tagg...@debian.org> wrote:
> daily > rotate 52 > > so it's keeping 52 days of logfiles (I wonder if daily used to be weekly > and it was keeping a year? that would make more sense). > > In #759382 apache2 switched to using "daily; rotate 14" to keep 2 weeks of > logs. There was a lot of discussion about the reasons to/not to keep logs > in that bug and and the conclusion was: > > * a default of 14 days was good for privacy > * a default of 14 days was enough for packages such as webalizer to still > gather the data they needed > * administrators that desired to keep more or less than that could always > adjust the conffile and their preference would be maintained > * legal responsibility to maintain logs varies by jurisdiction and is the > responsbility of the sysadmin, not debian. debian's responsibility is to > it's users and we should default to maintaining privacy. > > Thanks, > > -- > Matt Taggart > tagg...@debian.org > > > > Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
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