[Box Backup] Configurable syslog facility

Kenny Millington boxbackup@boxbackup.org
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:28:50 +0000


On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 18:20 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> I'm not sure that I approve of the use of syslogs as an intermediate 
> storage for this kind of logging. It's already possible to log to a file 
> and specify a different verbosity level when doing so, so that debug level 
> logging doesn't end up in syslog, only in that file. I would have thought 
> that handling a backup-finish event, parsing and then deleting that file 
> would be more reliable.

It is? Cool, I think I just learnt something there. I suspect I have
some reading to do! (Pointers in the right direction welcome...:))

I never realised it was possible to do that, although I haven't been
following box quite as closely as I should have been given how
extensively we use it here... ;)

> actually 0.11, whenever that is :)

Excellent!

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