On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 11:03:27PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > Jump forward a few weeks, and now the client wants to start running hit > reports on the apache log data. Well, it seems that during the apache purge, > it deleted(rm -rf) /var/log/apache(also a few other dirs).
While it was not your question -- and I'm not sure if this is a policy issue or not -- I believe I'd do one thing differently if I were the apache maintainer: I'd take care to only delete files under /var/log/apache which matched the default log-name template for logfiles generated by the package. And, (if only because I know web logs are so valuable to some people) I'd included a comment about this pattern's significance in README.debian. On the other hand, I can certainly understand that rm -rf /var/log/apache is both simple and robust. Finally, I should note that on web servers under my care, log files are copied to another machine for backup (and analysis) on a daily basis. [But that's not really a debian issue.] -- Raul
