On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, P a u l Guth wrote:

> The response from the coders has been basically "Everything
> you want you can get from looking in the database."

what if the database goes down?

code is not perfect. what if, for some unforseen reason, the data in the
database ends up _not_ being representative of what is going on with the
system?

from an operational point of view, not logging is just silly. plus,
logging to syslog can help identify interactions between your software and
the system that might not otherwise be apparant.

logging is cheap, from a coding point of view.

having to interact with a database in order to determine what is going on
with the system takes too much work, and involves writing additional code
that in and of itself may be buggy.

i question any complex development project that doesn't include, at a bare
minimum, debug logging via syslog or a flat logfile.

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christian void - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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jay is my hero.



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