Re: preferred logging methods

[Brian Wert <bwert@mediaone.net>]

> I'm wondering what everyone does for logging. Both:
>
> 1. For in-depth debugging, esp for connection debugging
> 2. For day-to-day monitoring after everything is working properly
>
> Also, I'm having some trouble getting any logging to happen right now.
> I'm using an rpm install (openldap-2.0.7-14, Linux RH 7.1), so I didn't
> have the option of compiling with "--enable-debug", but the
> administrator's guide seems to indicate that levels 256 and 512 should
> always work.  I've got "loglevel 256" in my slapd.conf, but nothing shows
> up in the syslog.
>
> Also, does anyone know if you can log to a particular file?

You need to put the following in your syslog.conf file and restart the syslog 
server:

local4.debug		/var/log/ldap.log (or what ever file you want)


Cheers,
Brian Wert