* docs/logging.html.in: Fix spelling and grammar.
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This quickly grew into something large enough that I no longer
feel comfortable applying it under the obvious rule, even though
it only touches documentation.
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@@ -4,33 +4,33 @@
<h1 >Logging in the library and the daemon</h1>
<p>Libvirt includes logging facilities starting from version 0.6.0,
this complements the <a href="errors.html">error handling</a>
- mechanism and APIs to allow tracing though the execution of the
+ mechanism and APIs to allow tracing through the execution of the
library as well as in the libvirtd daemon.</p>
<p>The logging functionalities in libvirt are based on 3 key concepts,
similar to the one present in other generic logging facilities like
log4j:</p>
<ul>
<li>log messages: they are information generated at runtime by
- the libvirt code, it includes a priority level (DEBUG = 1,
+ the libvirt code. Each message includes a priority level (DEBUG = 1,
INFO = 2, WARNING = 3, ERROR = 4), a category, function name and
line number, indicating where it originated from, and finally
- a formatted message, in addition the library adds a timestamp
+ a formatted message. In addition the library adds a timestamp
at the begining of the message</li>
- <li>log filters: it's a set of patter and priorities allowing to acept
- or reject a log message, if the message category matches a filter,
+ <li>log filters: a set of patterns and priorities to accept
+ or reject a log message. If the message category matches a filter,
the message priority is compared to the filter priority, if lower
the message is discarded, if higher the message is output. If
no filter matches, then a general priority level is applied to
- all remaining messages. This allows to capture for example all
- debug messages for the QEmu driver, but otherwise only allow
- errors to show up from other parts</li>
- <li>log outputs: once a message has gone though filtering a set of
+ all remaining messages. This allows, for example, capturing all
+ debug messages for the QEmu driver, but otherwise only allowing
+ errors to show up from other parts.</li>
+ <li>log outputs: once a message has gone through filtering a set of
output defines where to send the message, they can also filter
based on the priority, for example it may be useful to output
all messages to a debugging file but only allow errors to be
- logged though syslog.</li>
+ logged through syslog.</li>
</ul>
- <p>The library configuration of logging is though 3 environment variables
+ <p>The library configuration of logging is through 3 environment variables
allowing to control the logging behaviour:</p>
<ul>
<li>LIBVIRT_DEBUG: it can take the four following values:
@@ -41,14 +41,14 @@
<li>3 or "warn": log warnings and errors, that's the default value</li>
<li>4 or "error": log only error messages</li>
</ul></li>
- <li>LIBVIRT_LOG_FILTERS: allow to define logging filters</li>
- <li>LIBVIRT_LOG_OUTPUTS: allow to define logging outputs</li>
+ <li>LIBVIRT_LOG_FILTERS: defines logging filters</li>
+ <li>LIBVIRT_LOG_OUTPUTS: defines logging outputs</li>
</ul>
<p>Note that, for example, setting LIBVIRT_DEBUG= is the same as unset. If
you specify an invalid value, it will be ignored with a warning. If you
have an error in a filter or output string, some of the settings may be
applied up to the point at which libvirt encountered the error.</p>
- <p>Similary the daemon logging behaviour can be tuned using 3 config
+ <p>Similarly the daemon logging behaviour can be tuned using 3 config
variables, stored in the configuration file:
<ul>
<li>log_level: accepts the following values:
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@
<li>2: informations, warnings and errors</li>
<li>1: debug and everything</li>
</ul></li>
- <li>log_filters: allow to define logging filters</li>
- <li>log_outputs: allow to define logging outputs</li>
+ <li>log_filters: defines logging filters</li>
+ <li>log_outputs: defines logging outputs</li>
</ul>
<p>When starting the libvirt daemon, any logging environment variable
settings will override settings in the config file. Command line options
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
<li>3: WARNING</li>
<li>4: ERROR</li>
</ul>
- <p>Multiple output can be defined , they just need to be separated by
+ <p>Multiple output can be defined, they just need to be separated by
spaces, e.g.: <code>"3:syslog:libvirtd 1:file:/tmp/libvirt.log"</code>
will log all warnings and errors to syslog under the libvirtd ident
but also log everything debugging and informations included in the
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