On 16 September 2010 11:57, Stuart Bishop <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Martin Pool <[email protected]> wrote: >> In the near future errors from process-mail.py will be sent to a log >> file not to lp-errors-reports. >> >> At the moment, in the production launchpad.net, errors from the >> process-mail.py cronscript are sent by mail. Previously this only >> said anything when the script failed, but as part of the DKIM LEP I >> made it emit some debug/info messages. These are now going to an >> errors mailing list, which is doubly bad because it creates noise for >> people subscribed to the list, while also being hard for me to see the >> errors to debug the deployment issues. >> >> I'm about to file an RT (approved by lifeless) asking the LOSAs to >> send output from this cronscript to a file, as is done for some >> (most?) of the others. > > The other scripts don't emit much noise because they are not being run > in verbose mode. If this script is emitting too much, it is self > inflicted - in the crontab remove the -v to just get INFO and higher, > or run with -q to just get WARNINGS.
Uh, ok, but I actually do want the debug output, I just don't want it sent by mail. I think we should actually log everything to disk all the time, unless that's generating a truly unreasonable amount of data. >> Later on we could look at having messages >=error sent to stderr and >> everything (including errors) set to a log file, which would help us >> converge on having mail sent if and only if there is is a serious >> problem. > > Yes. Because all cronscripts use the same logging setup, we can do > this for all scripts at once. It needs to be specified in a bug report > so work can be scheduled. It could all be done with command line > arguments, or using the cronscript control file work (so -q and -v > specify how much noise to emit to stderr, and the cronscript control > file specifies what error levels go to which logfiles). <https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/640125> -- Martin _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
