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From Devrim Gündüz
Subject Re: What's the logic of touching /var/log/pgsql ?
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Msg-id 1407456604.2748.0.camel@asus-laptop-03.gunduz.org
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In response to What's the logic of touching /var/log/pgsql ?  (Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com>)
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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,

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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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