[Issue 9726] Admin guide and man pages need better documentation on disabling syslog
https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9726
--- Comment #9 from Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah(a)openldap.org> ---
(In reply to Shawn McKinney from comment #8)
>logfile <filename>
>Specify a file for recording slapd debug messages. By default these messages >only
go to stderr, are not recorded anywhere else, and are unrelated to >messages exposed by
the loglevel configuration parameter. Specifying a logfile >copies messages to both
stderr and the logfile.
Confused by phrasing "and are unrelated to messages exposed by the loglevel
configuration parameter". How are they unrelated to the loglevel setting?
It's talking about slapd debug messages, which are separate from loglevel
settings:
"Specify a file for recording slapd debug messages."
IOW - Doesn't loglevel always control the granularity of the
messages,
regardless of whether they are bound for stderr or the logfile?
No, only loglevel messages, not debug messages.
And yes, the 'logFileOnly' flag controls that behavior which
is clearly
pointed out in the man page and despite what was said on earlier comment.
No, that's not clear at all. What it says is:
"logfile-only on | off
Specify that debug messages should only go to the configured
logfile, and not to stderr."
Which is talking only about debug messages and says nothing about loglevel
messages which by default get sent to syslog.
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