Hi everyone, > On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:45:52PM +0100, Alex Kiernan wrote: > > We collect all our syslog error messages into one file - getting > > pdns_recursors stats in there is blooming irritating. Is there a good > > reason it doesn't log them at something like info?
> The problem is that syslog thinks in terms of 'severity', and we tend to > think in terms of 'important' or 'unimportant'. While the statistics are > not > errors, many people like to actually see them. > > Having said that, I think we could lower this to 'Warning' w/o upsetting > things too much. Many installations actually monitor these log messages, > it > appears. Just to clarify here- the "proper" severity level to use for these types of messages is "info", as Alex suggested. This level is also logged by default by most distributions into the messages file. As well, many users log "Warning-and-higher" into an "action item" log file, which the stats wouldn't belong in. Just FYI! ============================ Darren Gamble Systems Architect, Regional Services Shaw Cablesystems GP 630 - 3rd Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 4L4 (403) 781-4948 _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users
