ando@sys-net.it wrote:

gavin.henry@gmail.com wrote:

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Ok, but wouldn't that detail be best served staying in the man page? I mean, what "user" will want to enter hex for loglevels?

Actually, I wonder what user would use the decimal notation. I introduced the hexadecimal because I find it a little more intuitive in terms of bitwise (then I decided to move to string-based :)

After giving many training sessions, I can assure you many "doing their best" users trust the decimal notation. Their managers, trying to help analyze problems, also. I know one such guy, head of infrastructure for a multinational company, with little or no background in IT, who speaks fluently in decimal OpenLDAP log levels :)

Also, specifying "255" is much shorter than "Trace Packets Args Conns BER Filter Config Args".

Thus, I feel it's still useful to find decimal notations in the guide. At least, to understand existing configs. On the same basis, hex could be useful.

Jonathan