On Wed, Aug 06, Martin Vidner wrote:

> Dear hackers,
> 
> you are all admins of your own workstations, I believe.
> Have you ever wondered what YaST did to your system? Or even what
> *you* did to your system a week or a month ago?
> 
> Please have a look at your y2log now:
>   sudo less /var/log/YaST2/y2log
> The information is (mostly) there, but it is buried in piles and
> heaps of debugging information.
> 
> So yes, as if you did not have enough features to implement already,
> I am asking you for more. But the users will love it.
> 
> Please take one (or all) of your modules and put in log messages
> using the API below. Presumably they are already there, using
> y2milestone.
> 
> ALog stands for Admin's log, to remind you who the reader is.
> 
>   ALog::Item("/etc/ntp.conf: added 'server ntp.example.org'")
>   ALog::Item("enabled /etd/init.d/ntp")
>   ALog::Item("started /etd/init.d/ntp")
> 
>   ALog::CommitPopup()
>     will lead to ALog::Note("set up ntp from local server")

Isn't this what the loglevel 6 (E_USR) was intended for? An absract of 
changes done to the system which is also loged into a separate file.


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cu,
    Michael Andres

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