01-02-2013
Writing to System Logs
This isn't a RedHat specific question. The software in question might be used for any Linux distribution. Would it be advisable or inadvisable for my application, to be downloaded by many people I don't know, to write to the following logs in /var/log?
maillog or mail.log
messages
secure
Is there a reason not to do this, and if I do write to these logs, is ordinary file I/O good enough?
Thanks.
Brandon
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