On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:03:55AM -0700, lianep at eng.sun.com wrote: > > One of the Xen daemons (xend) has both /var/log/xend.log, and > > /var/log/xend-debug.log. Both of them are often useful in locating problems. > > Is the debug log always on, or on based on a specific configuration > choice? Can either be redirected to a different location?
It can be disabled. /var/log/xend.log can be changed to somewhere else, but xend-debug.log currently cannot. The latter can be quite verbose. There is also a hotplug-related xendev-event.log which, whilst not maintained by xend itself, is closely related to either xend or xenstored (which has a debug log of its own too). (Frankly, they all need some serious reworking.) > I'm not picking on Xen -- just trying to use this case to understand one > example outlier to the more common model of command line switches > dictating both the single logfile location and verbosity (if tunable). The configuration model from upstream is a free-form file, /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp. Currently I'm leaning towards making these be properties on the service, mainly due to the difficulty in machine-reading this file. Hence the question :) I've started work on a fast-track for these daemons, but it's a way off being in a distributable state. regards john
