On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 08:29:45AM -0400, Joshua Roys wrote: > > The main purpose of the systemlogs directory is to contain various > logs from systems (namely the audit.log files) and the > audit-review.log record-keeping file. I decided yesterday to have > the default be /var/satellite/systemlogs irrespective of the > 'mount_point' variable. The two reasons behind this are: > - the AuditManager class uses a different variable, > web.audit.logdir, to find the systemlogs directory. > - when users would paste their spacewalk-setup output for help on > spacewalk-list, I kept seeing chown errors; the directory /needs/ to > be owned by tomcat now, and if spacewalk-setup made the directory > but failed the chown, the audit code wouldn't be happy without > manual intervention. > > This way, it can be assumed that everything is setup as needed- > although moving the systemlogs directory would require a bit of > knowledge at this point. Two things come out of this: first, I > should probably write an spacewalk-audit-setup script, or somesuch, > to facilitate moving the directory around and setting up various > things. Secondly, and more long-term, I think it would be nice to > have the audit records optionally be in the database (I say > optionally because of the 4G limit of XE - but hopefully the psql > port will eventually take care of that). > > What do you think? Do you agree? Or was it better how it was before?
The problem is: traditionally, /var/satellite as the default values of the mount point was never maintained by the rpm database. There are use cases where people mount the /var/satellite over NFS or share among Satellites, etc. By now putting the rpm-managed /var/satellite/systemlogs directory there, I fear we might experience bad side-effects. I'm not opposed to having the directory for systemlogs rpm-managed, I'd just like it to be different directory than something withing the default mount point path. Maybe /var/spacewalk or /var/rhn or something similar? -- Jan Pazdziora Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel
