You (Chris Fearnley) wrote: > 'Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:' > >I've changed the postinst script to create a symbolic link in /var/log, > >so that it will (hopefully) work in all cases. It is also backwards > >compatible with other programs (UPS watchdogs etc) this way. > > You might consider putting the symbolic link in the main installation > rather than the postinst (I may be wrong but having dpkg manage the > file seems easier administratively). And I think relative symbolic > links are to be preferred too. But no objection (from me :) in any > case.
I think you're right. When we feel the symlink isn't needed anymore it could be deleted from sysvinit-xx.deb and dpkg would automatically remove it when upgrading the sysvinit package. Thanks. -- Miquel van | Cistron Internet Services -- Alphen aan den Rijn. Smoorenburg, | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cistron.nl/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +31-172-419445 (Voice) 430979 (Fax) 442580 (Data)