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Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> nsca.c @ line 134 of 1450
>
> openlog("nsca",LOG_PID|LOG_NDELAY,LOG_DAEMON);
>
> prototype: void openlog(const char *ident, int logopt, int facility);
>
> We should probably make that a config-file defined variable. At the
> *very* least, a GNU autoconf compile-time configure option -> #DEFINE
>

Err... say what now?

> Default syslog.conf(5)'s everywhere are going to split the destination
> into a variety of files (because of priorities), which is insanely
> annoying.
>

First off, let's get one thing straight right from the start.
Syslog uses a facility and severity pair which, combined, is called
priority. It's actually a single number, calculated like so:

pri = (fac Most big shops end up using syslog-ng and filter on program:
>
> filter f_prog_nrpe { program("nrpe"); };
>

You could add something like this:
daemon.* /var/log/message/daemon.log

to get all NRPE logs in one file. Granted, it will be along with
every other application that logs to the LOG_DAEMON facility, but
you really don't want filter your events based on severity. That
way you can get a "WARNING: Internal inconsistency. Attempting autofix"
in one logfile and then immediately after "ERROR: Autofix failed,
quitting" in another logfile.

> Then we can route it out to destinations regardless of priorities before
> fall-back facility.priority(*) wildcard gets caught.
>

Sure, but since there aren't enough facilities for every program to have
its own, the facilities need to be shared. I fail to see the problem here,
since so far the only ones you've mentioned are downright wrong.

> For example, there's only one or two LOG_DEBUG's, but the config file
> only defines a boolean log statement.
>

True that. I wouldn't mind having various verbosity levels in nrpe, but
that's got absolutely *NOTHING* to do with openlog(3).

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