Re: Docs: admin guide describes log levels inconsistently (ITS#5904)

[gavin.henry@gmail.com]

Ok, but wouldn't that detail be best served staying in the man page? I
mean, what "user" will want to enter hex for loglevels?

I'll make the same anyway.

Thanks.

On 05/02/2009, quanah@zimbra.com <quanah@zimbra.com> wrote:
> --On Thursday, February 05, 2009 11:41 AM +0000 ghenry@OpenLDAP.org wrote:
>
>> Awww, aren't we nice! ;-)
>>
>> Patch applied,
>
> The new patch is definitely an improvement, however it fails to document
> the hexadecimal notation for log levels, which is also perfectly valid.
> See slapd.conf(5):
>
> 		     1	    (0x1 trace) trace function calls
> 		     2	    (0x2 packets) debug packet handling
> 		     4	    (0x4 args) heavy trace debugging (function args)
>
>
> and the description therein:
>
> 	      The desired log level can be input  as  a  single  integer  that
> 	      combines	the  (ORed)  desired  levels,  both  in  decimal or in
> 	      hexadecimal notation, as a  list	of  integers  (that  are  ORed
> 	      internally),  or	as  a list of the names that are shown between
> 	      brackets, such that
>
> 		  loglevel 129
> 		  loglevel 0x81
> 		  loglevel 128 1
> 		  loglevel 0x80 0x1
> 		  loglevel acl trace
>
> 	      are equivalent.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Quanah Gibson-Mount
> Principal Software Engineer
> Zimbra, Inc
> --------------------
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>
>
>

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