[Issue 9726] Admin guide and man pages need better documentation on disabling syslog

(In reply to Howard Chu from comment #15) > > syncrepl.c: fprintf(stderr, "merge_state: %s si_syncCookie [%d] > > %d %s\n", > > syncrepl.c: fprintf(stderr, "merge_state: %s si_cookieState [%d] > > %d %s\n", > > ``` > Instances of fprintf(stderr) in daemon code are anomalies. and so should converted to use the macro, right? (Admittedly low priority) > > > When the man page says "debug messages", it's talking about the messages > > printed to stderr. > > It is talking about messages printed to stderr because of the debuglevel > setting. it is not talking about the anomalous fprintf(stderr) messages > scattered thru daemon code that don't belong there. So, this means we now have two mechanisms that do the same thing. To prevent (the terminology) confusion, the old mechanism, debuglevel, should be deprecated IMO.