2012/6/4 David Henningsson <david.henningsson at canonical.com>: > Sometimes I have users who complain about some problem, but after a > "pulseaudio -k" the problem is gone. Therefore asking them to restart > pulseaudio with -vvvv switch will not give any information about the error. > > ?* I could log to syslog (the default), but once I enable debug level log, > the syslog daemon can start to ratelimit, especially during the startup > phase of pulseaudio. > > ?* I could log to file, but then that file would quickly get overwritten, as > soon as pulseaudio restarts. > > Is there a trick I'm missing here? Or would it be possible to add some kind > of expansion to the log file name to make the files unique? Hi David, I'm doing the GSoC to enhance the logging functionality in pulseaudio, I could take a look at this issue and try to improve it a little bit. :)