On Mon, 14.04.08 12:19, Sean McNamara (smcnam at gmail.com) wrote: > Not to split hairs or anything, but, if someone were to do the following > in daemon.conf: > log-level = error > > would that mean that passing -vvvv in the command line would bump it > from error -> warning -> notice -> info -> debug? Notice, four arrows, > four v's. From the pulse-daemon.conf manpage: > > "log-level= Log level, one of debug, info, notice, warning, error. Log > messages with a lower log level than specified here are not logged. > Defaults to notice. The --log-level command line option takes > precedence. The -v command line option might alter this setting." > > I have set the log-level to error before, in other daemon programs, on a > system with very constrained disk space, where /var was mounted on NAND. > So I can imagine a marginal use case for this. > > So, not to justify my point or anything, but -vvvv is the safest option > to have someone try if you don't know their daemon.conf settings :) > Otherwise, -vv with log-level = error would just go error -> warning -> > notice, and not give us any infos or debugs. Even -vv with log-level = > warning would only give us up to infos. > > Of course, in this situation it seems the OP didn't modify the default > conf files *at all* until we started to help him out, so -vv might've > been a safe assumption. Splitting even more hairs ;-) Ok, you won. ;-) Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
