[olug] more chattr

[Vincent]

mesc wrote:
> 
> I've read the chattr man page and one thing still  confuses me,with the
> +i option it says no data can be written to it so how can that option
> be used  on a log file?
> 
>             Confused,Gary Martin :)
> 
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The only reason I can think of is to use immutable on a log file is for
archived logs.  ie.  /var/log/messages.3

There may be a way to do that in the logrotate scripts.

I suppose you could use append-only for the active log file though.

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