Subject: Bug#3990: xdm-errors location not what FSSTND says

From: Michael Gaertner <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 15:30:54 +0200 (MET DST)

Package: xbase
Version: 3.1.2-9

FSSTND R1.2 writes in chap. 5.3.5 to place xdm-errors in 
/var/lib/xdm/. This is not the location xdm-errors get logged by default
in above package.

Suggestion: change /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config in line
"DisplayManager.errorLogFile:" to 

"DisplayManager.errorLogFile: /var/lib/xdm/xdm-errors"

Michael Gaertner <[email-masked]>
Tel/Fax +49-761-32684

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From: Craig Sanders <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 11:42:54 +1000 (EST)

> "DisplayManager.errorLogFile: /var/lib/xdm/xdm-errors"

What's so special about xdm that it's error log files should go in
/var/lib?

Isn't /var/log (or subdirectories of /var/log) the right place for all
log files?

Craig

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From: [email-masked] (Kai Henningsen)
Date: 04 Aug 1996 13:01:00 +0200

> Isn't /var/log (or subdirectories of /var/log) the right place for all

That's probably why the next version of the standard no longer talks about  
xdm-errors.

MfG Kai

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From: Michael Gaertner <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 15:28:29 +0200 (MET DST)

> That's probably why the next version of the standard no longer talks about  
Don't no bout that but I think xfs and xdm should log errors the same way:

/etc/X11/xfs/config: "error-file = /var/lib/xfs/xfs-errors

Cheerio, Michael

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From: [email-masked] (Kai Henningsen)
Date: 08 Aug 1996 17:03:00 +0200

[email-masked] (Michael Gaertner)  wrote on 07.08.96 in <[email-masked]>:

> > [email-masked] (Craig Sanders)  wrote on 04.08.96 in
> > <[email-masked]>:
> >
> > > > /var/lib/xdm/. This is not the location xdm-errors get logged by
> > > > default in above package.
> > > >

Or, to put it another way: IMHO, this was a bug in the FSSTND.

> /etc/X11/xfs/config: "error-file = /var/lib/xfs/xfs-errors

But error logs should not be in /var/lib. They should be in /var/log.

IMHO.

MfG Kai