On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 12:01:57 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,19.Sep.08, 23:57:54, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Afaics I have the following options. > > 1.) Do nothing and simply document this fact in README.Debian, telling > > the admin that he can safely delete this files if he no longer needs them. > > I would have rather suggested NEWS.Debian if apt-listchanges was higher > priority. Anyway, this should also be documented in the release notes. > > After reading this I went on cleaning my /var/log/ and found some recent > .0 files (I switched to rsyslog in July): > > $ ls -la /var/log/*.0 > -rw-r----- 1 root adm 51123 2008-09-19 22:09 /var/log/dmesg.0 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46714 2008-09-13 06:25 /var/log/popularity-contest.0
Those two are not obsolete, as they are being rotated by savelog, either by a cronjob or a boot script, the same applies for other .0 log files. So this would have to be documented as well to avoid users removing valid files. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]