Comment # 1 on bug 1044672 from Andreas Stieger

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# create dirs, touch log default files
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if [ "$1" = "1" ] ; then  # first install
mkdir -p var/log
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test -f var/log/news && mv -f var/log/news var/log/news.bak
mkdir -p -m 0750 var/log/news
chown news:news  var/log/news
touch var/log/news/news.crit;   chmod 640 var/log/news/news.crit
chown news:news var/log/news/news.crit
touch var/log/news/news.err;    chmod 640 var/log/news/news.err
chown news:news var/log/news/news.err
touch var/log/news/news.notice; chmod 640 var/log/news/news.notice
chown news:news var/log/news/news.notice