[request-tracker-maintainers] Bug#747076: Bug#747076: request-tracker4: rt.log file permissions

[Alex Vandiver]

On 10/04/2014 08:52 AM, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> Just to be clear, this was exposed as a result of the change to the
> defaults, in #712147. Unfortunately neither the bug submitter nor I
> gave any reasoning behind this choice, and (partly because of the issue
> above and partly because of the general advice given at the
> "Quit logging!"[1] Debconf session to prefer standard logging methods
> rather than logging directly to files, I am inclined to revert this
> change in time for the jessie release. This would mean that Syslog is
> used again (in fact I might make it explicit, rather than directly
> reverting the change).
> 
> I note also that at least in 2009[2], LogToFile was not recommended for
> production deployment in any case.

My only comment is that that recommendation should not be given
over-much weight.  In fact, in installs with multiple RT instances,
file-based logging may well be the only easy way to keep the instances'
logs disentangled.  The only caveat to LogToFile is that the
administrator (or package) must remember to set up logrotate for the
files RT writes, or they may grow without limit.

 - Alex