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From: ramana <ramana@intraperson.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] logging to stderr
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:02:48 +0530
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To: "Peter C. Norton" <spacey-autofs@lenin.net>
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Peter C. Norton wrote:

>There are sometimes good reasons to log to stderr instead of syslog.
>syslog is slow, loses messages, inflexable, and can introduce delays
>and huge volumes of crap to the disk.  Using stderr loggers can
>filter, or do things like rotate logs actively, etc.
>
>I don't know if any of these are the motivations for the patch, but if
>its not intrusive its a good idea.
>
>-Peter
>
>  
>
I put this feature right from the beginning in Autodir, not intended for 
above reasons but it helped and helps debugging many bugs.

Regards
ramana

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