Re: logging
Tom Lees wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 01:20:46PM -0400, Behan Webster wrote:
> > Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > >
> > > I asked about this before, what sort of logging do we want in apt? I was
> > > going to arrange to call dpkg through script(1) so that we get a nice log
> > > of events, but where should this log go?
> > >
> > > /var/log/apt/dpkg-<DATE> ?
> > >
> > > How do we keep that clean?
> > >
> > > Whats the general policy on logging erratic things?
> >
> > This may not answer exactly the question you were asking, but I would
> > like to see output from dpkg sectioned somewhat. I understand that this
> > can't be done until later, but just so people are thinking about it.
> > I.e. this is a wish list for when apt is more tightly integrated with
> > dpkg (through a pipe or library, or whatever).
>
> I think erratic things should probably be syslog'd as well as being logged
> to the dpkg/apt log file. This would be useful, eg if syslogging goes over
> UDP to a different machine.
That's a good idea!
Behan
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