Re: Log lines from the CLI, was [ANNOUNCE] conntrack-tools 1.0.0 released

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On 07/03/11 14:30, Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On 27/Feb/11 03:28, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>> - The command line interface (CLI) conntrack that provides an interface
>> to add, delete and update flow entries, list current active flows in
>> plain text/XML, current IPv4 NAT'ed flows, reset counters, and flush the
>> complete connection tracking table among many other.
> 
> Although this is a command line tool, I guess it is mostly used in
> scripts, or execv'ed by other command line utilities according to some
> parameters, possibly non-interactively.  Thus, there is a usability
> concern about its output.
> 
> I would like to see regular lines such as "NNN flow entries have been
> deleted" at LOG_INFO, while something like "Operation failed: %s"
> possibly deserves LOG_CRIT.  Would it be possible to use dlog in
> conntrack.c?

The command line tool is not designed for logging. For that purpose you
can use ulogd2.
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