On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 13:27 -0600, David Teigland wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 08:09:10PM +0100, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > those logging threads have been going on for way too long. It's time to > > close them and make a final decision. This is a long email, so please > > take time to read it all. > > > > This is a recap of what I believe a user would like to see: > > > > - a consistent, easy and quick way to configure logging. > > - a reasonable default if nothing is specified. > > - a consistent, easy to read, output. > > I like this. Two minor points regarding the actual terminology; I'd like > to be a little more consistent and identify some "keywords". Right now > the word "log" is combined with other words in a bunch of ways (logging, > logger, logfile, syslog, log_foo). How about: > > . logging, logging_subsys (common keyword "logging") > for the config file section tags > > - to_syslog, syslog_facility, syslog_priority (common keyword "syslog") > for every parameter related to syslog > > - to_logfile, logfile, logfile_priority (common keyword "logfile") > for every parameter related to logfile +1 on all 3 of them. The only reason I did try to avoid keyword changes was to minimize the impact in compat layers since most of those are already in use by us. > > And then we have some values that are "on/off" and others that are > "yes/no"; let's pick one. +1. Given the boolean value, "on/off" sounds more nerdy. Fabio -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
