[syslog-ng] rm /var/log/{dmesg,lastlog,wtmp,faillog,..?}?!

[Lance Laursen]

What are you trying to do? Scenarios where you would not want those
files are extremely limited. I'd wager that you're 'doing it
wrong(tm)'.

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Pallagi Zoltán <pzolee at balabit.hu> wrote:
> Hi,
> The syslog-ng doesn't use these logs by default. You can remove these
> but most of them will be recreated by another programs and you may
> experience unexpected behavior of your programs.
> explanation about logs:
> /var/log/lastlog, /var/log/wtmp used by login program
> /var/log/dmesg used by kernel
> and of course the Google is a very powerful tool to understand it
>
> Before you remove these, you should create a backup!
>
>
> Kārlis Repsons írta:
>> If one has set up a dedicated syslog-ng configuration and wants to remove
>> files like those, what would happen? Can anyone list the software entities
>> responsible for writing to those? Has anyone configured a system, which
>> doesn't needs them?
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