Re: Why was apache2's logfiles moved mid april?

From	Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Why was apache2's logfiles moved mid april?
Date	2017-06-06 12:10 +0200
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On 2017-06-05, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> On Monday 05 June 2017 08:27:11 David Wright wrote:
>
>> On Mon 05 Jun 2017 at 11:10:12 (+0000), davidson@freevolt.org wrote:
>> > On Mon, 5 Jun 2017, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > >Greetings all;
>> > >
>> > >100% uptodate wheezy install here.
>> > >
>> > >I try to keep a handle on my web site traffic with awffull, but it
>> > > has not generated any new data since sometime in april, so I go
>> > > looking for the why tonight and find that apache2's logfiles were
>> > > moved to /var/log/httpd.  I was going to reconfigure awffull, but
>> > > that would have cost me about 5 years of history,  so I moved the
>> > > files, and where apache2 keeps its logs back to /var/log/apache2.
>> > >
>> > >Was there a good reason to issue an update to apache2.conf that
>> > > moved those logfiles?
>>
>> I thought this change was made so that you could run multiple
>> instances. It's all in the changelog.
>>
> I grepped the system for apache2, then grepped that for a ChangeLog, and 
> came up empty.

[...]

Glad you fixed the problem. For future reference,
/usr/share/doc/apache2/ is where you'll find the Debian and upstream
changelogs. Similarly for any other /usr/share/doc/$package_name/.

-- 

Liam

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Why was apache2's logfiles moved mid april? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-06-05 08:20 +0200
  Re: Why was apache2's logfiles moved mid april? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2017-06-05 13:20 +0200
  Re: Why was apache2's logfiles moved mid april? davidson@freevolt.org - 2017-06-05 13:20 +0200
    Re: Why was apache2's logfiles moved mid april? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-06-05 14:30 +0200
    Re: Why was apache2's logfiles moved mid april? David Wright <david@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-06-05 14:50 +0200
      Re: Why was apache2's logfiles moved mid april? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-06-05 15:20 +0200
        Re: Why was apache2's logfiles moved mid april? Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 12:10 +0200
          Re: Why was apache2's logfiles moved mid april? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-06-06 15:40 +0200
            Re: Why was apache2's logfiles moved mid april? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-06-06 15:50 +0200
              Re: Why was apache2's logfiles moved mid april? Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2017-06-06 23:10 +0200

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