LogsDirectory vs. group adm

[Felipe Sateler]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 6:12 PM Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser at tarent.de> wrote:

> Hi Felipe,
>
> > > This won’t delete the logs on shutdown or something, because
> > > it’s called tmpfiles?
> >
> > No, because we don't provide the last argument (the age one):
>
> thanks!
>

Glad to help.


>
> > In fact, /var/log is already tmpfile'd with a similar entry:
>
> OK. I don’t run systemd, so I didn’t know and needed this info,
> as I had just fixed this for sysvinit-based systems in tomcat9,
> and found the LogsDirectory stuff in the systemd service file,
> which I’m currently transferring into an init script.
>

It might be a good idea to store that script somewhere else (possibly
/usr/lib/tomcat9 ?) and call it from the init script. As the script gets
more complex, the chance of a conffile conflict increases, as the
probability of needed modification either by the admin or the maintainer
increases.


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler
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