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

Sorry for replying to an old topic, but it would be really good to remove
this from new packages, since it's useless, and that file path could be a
nice directory for storing postgres logs outside the data dir.

Do you guys accept patches for the RPM repository?

Strahinja Kustudić | Lead System Engineer | Nordeus

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:10 AM, Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> wrote:

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