On 22/2/19 16:55, Marc Haber wrote: > I am not sure whether this was a brilliant idea, many local mechanisms > on existing installations might be looking for the file in the old > place. Also, migration probably needs a gazillion of tests to make sure > that nothing breaks. For how long has the data been in /var/log/?
Hello Marc The /var/log/account/ path was introduced by a previous maintainer in 6.3.99+6.4pre1-3 release (2006). I can't figure out any reason for that. In fact, there were several bugs reporting troubles caused by this change (#377835 <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=377835>, #380744 <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=380744>, #385626 <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=385626>, #392045 <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392045>, #396444 <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=396444>). Instead of reverting this change to the standard path (/var/account), he decided to fix them setting this new path properly in all pertinent files and it was in use it since then. AFAIK, you could define any path you want for store log files. Greetings, Marcos.
