Michael Biebl wrote: > 2.) Try to log rotate the .0 files for the default Debian log files in > postinst. I feel a bit uneasy about this approach, for several reasons: > - It adds fairly reasonable complexity to the maintainer scripts, if you > want to consider all corner cases. > E.g. if you switch from syslog-ng to rsyslog, it is very likely that you > have old .0 files lying around (from a sysklogd->syslog-ng switch), so > syslog.1 would be older than syslog.2 which would be very confusing. Well, you could rely on ctime for this, even though this would make postinst even more complex; any other reasons?
> 3.) Delete the .0 files in postinst. Is this covered by the policy? I think that deleting logfiles without warning is totally unacceptable. Regards, Faidon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
