[PATCH v2 2/2] xf86LogInit: log to XDG_DATA_HOME when not running as root

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 03/27/2014 02:08 AM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> It seems to me like they should be in ~/.cache/, which is where
> non-important files that are mostly transient should go.

I've had a similar discussion in other projects (spice) and we decided
on XDG_DATA_HOME there. Logs realyl don't belong in .cache, that is for
volatile generated files which can be re-generated at will.

IE sometimes users do rm -rf ~/.cache to trouble shoot some issues, you
don't want that to blow away your logs.

Regards,

Hans

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> On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> On 03/26/2014 12:51 PM, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>>>> From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
>>>> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 12:24:50 +0100
>>>>
>>>> When no logfile was specified (xf86LogFileFrom == X_DEFAULT) and
>>>> we're not running as root log to $XDG_DATA_HOME/xorg/Xorg.#.log as
>>>> Xorg won't be able to log to the default /var/log/... when it is not
>>>> running as root.
>>>
>>> Having log files in .../share/... feels wrong.
>>
>> I know, but if we want to stick to the XDG guidelines for this (which I
>> say we do), this is where they are supposed to go.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Hans
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