On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 21:13 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 08:58:40PM -0400, Ding Yi Chen wrote: > > You still have not addressed the third party programs and scripts > > that monitor /var/log/messages > > A) If someone is installing a program that expects this file, they can also > install rsyslog. > > B) Fedora, RHEL, and most Red Hat derived distributions use > /var/log/messages, but not all do -- for example, Rocks (common in HPC) > breaks out syslog messages into individual files per facility. Debian and > Ubuntu? Totally diferent. (/var/log/syslog) > > So, these third-party scripts need to be flexible anyway. I don't think this > is a very strong point in the conversation.
FWIW, FHS states[1]: "The following files, or symbolic links to files, must be in /var/log, if the corresponding subsystem is installed: File Description lastlog record of last login of each user messages system messages from syslogd" There is clearly some ambiguity there; I'm not sure FHS writers considered the possibility of something that is clearly meant to fulfill the role of a system logging daemon but which does not want to write /var/log/messages . [1] http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_2.3/fhs-2.3.html#VARLOGLOGFILESANDDIRECTORIES -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
