SPECS: inn.spec - more logs cleanup (or does it write directly the...

[Elan Ruusamäe]

On Saturday 25 March 2006 18:01, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 04:50:58PM +0100, glen wrote:
> > Author: glen                         Date: Sat Mar 25 15:50:58 2006 GMT
> > Module: SPECS                         Tag: HEAD
> > ---- Log message:
> > - more logs cleanup (or does it write directly there?)
>
> It's more general issue, not only inn-related.
> Many syslog-handled log files are owned by some rpm packages, some of
> them are created in %post.
>
> So: should log files be created/owned by rpm packages or not?
imho syslog handled files should be handled by syslogdaemon package.

> > -%attr(770,root,news) %dir /var/log/news
> > -%attr(770,root,news) %dir /var/log/archiv/news
>
> Current default syslog/syslong-ng configuration in PLD use
> /var/log/news/news.* - so when this dir doesn't exist, syslog will fail.
> The same for /var/lib/archiv/news and default inn.logrotate.
so, syslogdaemon should own /var/log/news dir too.
and inn.logrotate shouldn't exist, the behaviour should be in syslogdaemon 
package

> > -%attr(664,news,news) %ghost /var/log/news/news.notice
> > -%attr(660,news,news) %ghost /var/log/news/news.crit
> > -%attr(660,news,news) %ghost /var/log/news/news.err
>
> Won't rpm remove these log files on upgrade?
nope (see /cvsroot/test/test-ghost.spec)

glen at builder pld/test $ rpm -qf /bla
file /bla is not owned by any package
glen at builder pld/test $ ls -l /bla
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Mar 26 14:54 /bla

-- 
glen