[Openais] [PATCH] trunk: logsys, do not flood syslog with debugging info

Lon Hohberger lhh at redhat.com
Fri Jul 11 06:43:12 PDT 2008


On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 09:33 +0200, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote:
> Hi Steven,
> 
> syslog should generally get only relevant messages for sysadmin tasks. All 
> debugging output should go only to_file/logfile.
> 
> the patch filters LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG messages from being sent to syslog.
> 
> Please apply.

Syslog filters messages too.

"debug.* /dev/null" would do it.

I must disagree with this patch.  It means administrators *CAN NOT*
enable debugging to syslog even if they want to, and that they must use
file I/O even if they do not want to just to debug something.

-- Lon




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