From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/1955 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joan Picanyol i Puig Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: log file locations Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 12:43:23 +0200 Message-ID: <20090603104323.GC26521@grummit.biaix.org> References: <20090603080522.GB6545@chico> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244025772 17791 80.91.229.12 (3 Jun 2009 10:42:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 10:42:52 +0000 (UTC) To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Original-X-From: supervision-return-2190-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Wed Jun 03 12:42:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcsg-supervision@gmane.org Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by lo.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MBnvB-0008Mg-Sp for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:42:13 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 10559 invoked by uid 76); 3 Jun 2009 10:43:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 10549 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2009 10:43:15 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090603080522.GB6545@chico> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:1955 Archived-At: * Felix [20090603 10:06]: > I am still unsure about the log file locations. I want as many other > sevices to be able to find log files (ie fail2ban, logwatch etc) and > am interested as to how others integrate runit and other services that > rely on traditional placement of logfiles, particularly on debian. Any > suggestions or tips would be appreciated. The main thing to be aware of is that runit requires diferent log directories per service. If your other services know accept a directory as a log placement parameter you can just tell svlogd to write everything under /var/log/. If they expect specific filenames you probably will have to setup symlinks under /var/log pointing to /service/*/log/current qvb -- pica