log files inside the /var/log directory

[Sergii]

Hello everybody.

I use Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.6 and try to figure out which package owes corresponding log file inside /var/log directory by means of rpm using the script:

#!/bin/bash

for package in `rpm -qa | sort`
do
if [ $(rpm -ql $package | grep /var/log | wc -l) -ne 0 ]
then
echo "$package"
echo "`rpm -ql $package | grep /var/log`"
fi
done


but rpm does not help too much because it does not indicate corresponding package for every log. Just works fine for some files.

 

[rstanley]

Many of the log files, syslog, messages, daemon.log, and others in /var/log are not "Owned" by any one package. Certain ones are created by one package, but could me written to by other packages. And yes, some are owned by a single package, or multiple packages that work together and created by the same authors.

This is further complicated by different Distors, having different packages in the package database.

I don't know how this search would be useful.

 

[GildeNam]

Here you have a brief description of some of the log files found under the /var/log/ directory: Linux log files