Re: What's the logic of touching /var/log/pgsql ?

From: Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-pkg-yum <pgsql-pkg-yum(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: What's the logic of touching /var/log/pgsql ?
Date: 2014-08-08 00:10:04
Message-ID: 1407456604.2748.0.camel@asus-laptop-03.gunduz.org
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Hi,

On Fri, 2014-08-01 at 15:52 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> The PGDG spec files for PostgreSQL have the following lines in the
> server preinst section:
>
> %pre server
> ... creates Pg user ...
> touch /var/log/pgsql
> chown postgres:postgres /var/log/pgsql
> chmod 0700 /var/log/pgsql
>
>
> What's the logic there? Why create an empty /var/log/pgsql file owned
> by user 'pgsql' ? It's not used for anything and just seems confusing.

It is obsoleted, can be removed.

Regards,

--
Devrim GÜNDÜZ
Principal Systems Engineer @ EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
PostgreSQL Danışmanı/Consultant, Red Hat Certified Engineer
Twitter: @DevrimGunduz , @DevrimGunduzTR

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