[hipl-dev] Re: [Merge] lp:~fahad-aizaz/hipl/logging into lp:hipl
- From: Diego Biurrun <diego@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hipl-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:31:28 +0200
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 04:07:56PM +0300, Miika Komu wrote:
>
> On 06/10/2011 02:34 PM, René Hummen wrote:
>> On 09.06.2011, at 19:41, Miika Komu wrote:
>>> Review: Needs Information
>>>> If the HIP daemon is executed in the foreground mode then in that case all
>>>> the messages are
>>>> logged both on STDERR and SYSLOG.
>>>
>>> I don't see why somebody would want to do this? I mean if you run it on the
>>> foreground, then I would expect everything to happen on the foreground. If
>>> grepping is needed, then normal shell redirection and pipes tricks apply.
>>> Can you find some other daemon software that does this?
>>
>> This decision was made for three reasons:
>> 1) syslog allows to redirect logs to a remote host. This should also
>> apply when HIPL is started in foreground.
>
> Why?
>
> Let me reask the unanswered question above: is there any other
> daemon-based software that does this?
>
> The foreground mode in background daemons is usually for foreground
> diagnostics. If you want to see syslog, you start in background. Is
> there some rationale for deviating from this (what makes HIPL so
> special)?
I'm with Miika on this one. Foreground logging is not syslog logging
IMO. Please find some examples of other Unix daemons that operate in
this way before "unifying" behavior in this direction.
Diego
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