On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 18:25, Doug Ledford wrote: > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 15:13 -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 11:21, Greg Lindahl wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 06:28:06PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > > > > > > > I would definitely put the option in, and in fact would default it to > > > > *NOT* truncate. > > > > > > I agree. I have never seen any other daemon with a logfile do this, > > > why are we out to surprise the admin? The admin might want the start > > > of the long instead of the end. And so on. > > > > I agree too but there is perhaps a difference here per degree: OpenSM > > can spew copious logging and fill /var/log readily. > > In which case the -L option to limit the maximum log file size makes > sense (as does making sure that the default logging level is warnings > and above, not all sorts of informational stuff unless requested in > order to keep logs more manageable under normal circumstances). > > In response to another statement made in another email, for better or > worse, OpenSM *is* a system daemon at this point. If you don't have (or > elect not to use) a switch embedded SM, then OpenSM is necessary to keep > your fabric operational. > > Or to put it another way: if you need to start it during init for your > system to operate properly, and if it needs to keep running all the > time, and if you need elevated permissions to run it, and if it has an > init script...you get the point...the rest of the world is going to tell > you this is a system daemon with console capabilities, not a console > program with daemon capabilities. As such, always thinking of it from > the perspective of a daemon would be wise in terms of avoiding > surprising users down the road IMO.
Well stated and I concur with that viewpoint. I may be mistaken but I think Sasha may have been referring to some things that could/might be done to make it behave better as a daemon. -- Hal _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
