[mythtv-users] --logfile vs. --logpath

[Thomas Mashos]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Stephan Seitz
<stse+mythtv at fsing.rootsland.net> wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 02:22:36PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>
>> MythTV is different from many/most other *nix apps in that there are often
>> multiple instances of applications running--and logging
>> information--concurrently. That said, the only "good old unix way" of
>
>
> You mean like a mail server like postfix with its different applications
> like smtpd, qmgr, cleanup or postscreen being able to receive and handle
> mails in parallel and logging each process without exploding computers?
>
>> logging I know of is, in fact, syslog--everything else is pretty much
>> non-standard, application-specific logging practices (where the vast
>> majority of those applications have only one instance or an application to
>> worry about, too).
>
>
> Well, show me an application with the same behaviour as mythtv. The
> applications (like apache) which don’t use syslog can be told to log into a
> certain file. Some can rotate the logfiles themself, others need logrotate,
> but you always know which file will contain the current logoutput.
>
>> FWIW, you don't need an unused log facility with the simple configuration
>> (which I just moved to a separate page so it's easier to quote/easier to
>> distinguish as separate).
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Simple_rsyslog_Configuration
>> As for dealing with multiple syslog implementations, I'd suppose packagers
>> could handle it as they do for other syslog-using applications. (That said,
>> I know nothing of packaging, but I do know of many applications that use
>> syslog.)
>
>
> It isn’t that easy. Your rsyslog examples will only work with rsyslog, and
> only rsyslog has the rsyslog.d directory. If the system uses syslog-ng or
> sysklogd you must manipulate one global configuration file.  syslog-ng and
> sysklogd will support filtering according to facility, but I don’t know if
> you can filter for application names.
>
> I would certainly not try to put such a logic into a package.
>
> On the other hand, mythtv generates to much logs to put everything into
> /var/log/syslog.
>
> Shade and sweet water!
>
>        Stephan
>
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A single global configuration file? Yuck. What distro do you use?

Thanks,

Thomas Mashos