Bug#50859: xfs Bug #50859: use start-stop-daemon --chuid ?
On 2008-05-16 23:43 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Sven Joachim]
>> Not at all, good catch. I just didn't know it even has a log file.
>> How about compiling with -DUSE_SYSLOG?
>
> I must admit, I would prefer xfs logging to syslog. When debugging
> the segfault in #148650, the first place I looked was /var/log/syslog.
> When Nothing showed up there, I started searching for the logs and
> discovered /var/log/xfs.log. So I would be less surprised if it used
> syslog. :)
Actually, in the default /etc/X11/fs/config there are the following
lines:
,----
| # log errors using syslog
| use-syslog = on
`----
which could be useful if only xfs were compiled with syslog support. :-)
But we need to deal with the error-file anyway, since that setting is
not mandatory.
Sven
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