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Re: syslog level or (open)ldap level?



On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 14:25 -0800, Howard Chu wrote:
> Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> > Recently, while trying to fix what I considered a bug, I changed the
> > parsing of slapd's '-s' option to reflect what was my interpretation of
> > the slapd(8) man page, i.e. tell slapd to log at a certain syslog level
> > (LOG_* according to syslog(3)).  In fact, in the sources, the variable
> > ldap_syslog_level is initialized to LOG_DEBUG which seems pretty safe. 
> > However, the tests set it to 0 (in scripts/defines.sh:
> > SLAPD="../servers/slapd/slapd -s0") which, at least on my Linux box, means
> > LOG_EMERG, i.e. everything gets sent to every console.  Could anybody
> > clarify if my interpretation of '-s' is correct, and if syslog's numerical
> > values are portable?  I'll definitely write a friendly parser for -s,
> > though.
> 
> No, the "-s" option isn't supposed to set the ldap_syslog_level, it sets 
> ldap_syslog to select which debug levels will be syslogged. There is no 
> control/knob/option for setting ldap_syslog_level, nor does it seem 
> necessary to create one.

OK; then the man page sounds a bit confusing.

p.




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