[email protected] wrote: > [email protected] wrote: >> Ok, but wouldn't that detail be best served staying in the man page? I >> mean, what "user" will want to enter hex for loglevels? > > Actually, I wonder what user would use the decimal notation. I > introduced the hexadecimal because I find it a little more intuitive in > terms of bitwise (then I decided to move to string-based :)
After giving many training sessions, I can assure you many "doing their best" users trust the decimal notation. Their managers, trying to help analyze problems, also. I know one such guy, head of infrastructure for a multinational company, with little or no background in IT, who speaks fluently in decimal OpenLDAP log levels :) Also, specifying "255" is much shorter than "Trace Packets Args Conns BER Filter Config Args". Thus, I feel it's still useful to find decimal notations in the guide. At least, to understand existing configs. On the same basis, hex could be useful. Jonathan
