* Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-26 03:34]: > I'm in the process of implementing a solution for bug 2333 > (controlling access / error log destination). > > Here's the one-email version: > > It has been requested that the ability to control where access and error log > information is sent be added to the depot server software. > > This is so that administrators can reserve the smf logs for errors and send > access information to a separate log file or /dev/null. > > The basic idea here is to add a -l parameter that you could use to define > where > to send the contents of each log file. > > You would use thusly: > > depot.py -l errors=destination -l access=destination > > Where destination is stderr, stdout, or a filename (including /dev/null). > > If you do not specify the -l option, or you do not specify one of the two log > types it would default as such: > > errors -> stderr > access -> stdout > > Two new SMF properties would be added: pkg/access_log and pkg/error_log, > respectively. > > Thoughts?
Why not just use long options? What other -l settings do you envision? (I'm pretty sure that the -a auth=url approach was wrong--my fault--so it would be nice to understand why something similar is needed here.) - Stephen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
