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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: B/C News woes
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Date: 22 Nov 89 22:38:31 GMT
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In <89Nov22.130142est.2899@neat.cs.toronto.edu> lamy@cs.toronto.edu
(Jean-Francois Lamy) writes:
JF> Boy, don't I wish there was a supported way to get the logs in the
JF> standard place where logs go instead of the control data area...

I changed this for us pretty easily.  There were only two changes I
made because I still wanted logs in NEWSCTL, just one directory
deeper.  Once that was done I could put them in /var/log by using a
symlink from NEWSCTL/logs, but I hate having symlinks hanging around.
It also brings up still another edit so that "errlog" and "log" are
slightly better named regarding what they are (err)logging.

The two edits, by the way, are both in relaynews.c in the
redirectlogs() function.

JF> Both of these items seem to be logically distinct part of news
JF> processing from control data (NEWSCTL), and from article *storage*
JF> (NEWARTS).  But whereas handling NEWSSPOOL as a separate area is
JF> easy because you can just make two symlinks and forget about it,
JF> getting logs to go somewhere standard requires fiddling with the
JF> source and is therefore messier.

Mmm.  If I ran newsdaily here I think it would need an edit to point
to the log files too.  I like the arrangement I have now; /usenet is
basically stand-alone on the system, except for other utilities it
calls from /bin.  Everything related solely to news, from spooling to
log files to control files and programmes, et al, is found below it.
I can see why other sites would want to push spooling, for example, to
another partition though.

JF> Yah, I even know what the answer is going to be :-(  Maybe I should start a
JF> petition?

I'd sign.  Flexibility is good.  Checking the environment for two more
variables won't make relaynews become an resource hog.

Dave
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