[Cluster-devel] fenced logsys/cman/ccs setup

[Fabio M. Di Nitto <fdinitto@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, David Teigland wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:49:05AM -0500, David Teigland wrote:
>>> #define DEFAULT_FILE LOGDIR "/fenced.log"
>>>
>>> LOGDIR is set by the build system (same reasons as SYSLOGFACILITY). We
>>> want files by default consistently across the board.
>>
>> I think that by default we should probably have all logging go to
>> /var/log/messages like it has in the past.  Or, if we're daring, maybe
>> have it all go to /var/log/cluster.log.  But, I really doubt that people
>> want all programs to log to different files.
>
> Thinking more about this, debug logs would definately make sense in
> per-program log files like fenced.log.

Right :)

> I was thinking about the error
> messages we're switching from syslog to logsys.  So, how do we tell logsys
> to use /var/log/messages for errors and a separate file for debug output?

Why do you need this? Remember that you are setting a syslog facility. 
syslog doesn't necessarely send info locally and a certain facility can be 
directed to a specific file (even remote).

The normal /var/log/cluster/fenced.log will collect everything locally (if 
enabled).

Fabio

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