[Box Backup] Configurable syslog facility

Chris Wilson boxbackup@boxbackup.org
Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:28:23 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Kenny Millington 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...:))

The following may help you:

http://www.boxbackup.org/trac/wiki/LogFile
http://www.boxbackup.org/trac/wiki/LogFileLevel

Cheers, Chris.
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