On Sun, Feb 01, 2026 at 12:58:00PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...]
> In your case, I would recommend moving the log file out of /tmp and > into a permanent location, and creating it in advance with the proper > owner, group and permissions. That's the sensible way. > > If you insist on being not sensible, then perhaps you could configure > your system to create this file in /tmp every time you boot, either > using systemd-tmpfiles(8) or an /etc/rc.local script or something > along those lines. This would not be my choice. A log file shouldn't > be in /tmp. Regardless of whether my hunch in the other post is right or not, I agree wholeheartedly on this. /tmp is OK for playing around and trying to get things running, but not for production. Being unable to debug a problem is just a boot away :) A good place for the log file is, of course, /var/log. Proper log rotation is provided by logrotate. Cheers -- tomás
