Re: [PROPOSAL] CouchDB 2.0 log to ./var/log/couchdb.log by default

Yeah, I understand these reservations. I also learned that systemd handles stdout/stderr logging on its own now, so if that's the default on the bulk of popular UNIXes, perhaps this is a retrograde choice. That said it is the *only* choice I can support on Windows, where there is no system-wide

Re: [PROPOSAL] CouchDB 2.0 log to ./var/log/couchdb.log by default

It's not proposed to log to /var/log, but ./var/log. Big difference :) I'll respond to the other point separately. - Original Message - From: "Robert Samuel Newson" To: dev@couchdb.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 4:30:12 PM Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] CouchDB

Re: [PROPOSAL] CouchDB 2.0 log to ./var/log/couchdb.log by default

oh, as for /var/log/, that'd be a violation of LSB policy, right? That's not our place to play unless invited. > On 2 Aug 2016, at 21:29, Robert Samuel Newson wrote: > > My concern is that (and we've seen this with BigCouch), folks won't configure > log rotation until

Re: [PROPOSAL] CouchDB 2.0 log to ./var/log/couchdb.log by default

My concern is that (and we've seen this with BigCouch), folks won't configure log rotation until they have either a whopping great log file or, more typically, been woken by a paging system as their filesystem hit 100%. Given this method of logging also forces a copytruncate approach to

Re: [PROPOSAL] CouchDB 2.0 log to ./var/log/couchdb.log by default

Seems reasonable to me. I wonder if we should add a stdout log line that indicates where logs are going? Would be easy to add that as a module callback so it would work for stderr, file, and syslog. > On Aug 2, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Joan Touzet wrote: > > Presently, CouchDB

[PROPOSAL] CouchDB 2.0 log to ./var/log/couchdb.log by default

Presently, CouchDB 2.0 logs only to stderr. I have opened a PR to switch this behaviour to log to the ./var/log/couchdb.log release-local file by default: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/435 This behaviour is easily overridden in the default.ini/local.ini files if desired. I'm not sure