[vdr] Re: Request: logging to seperate file

[Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>]

Juergen Schmidt wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was trying to clean my log files from the VDR stuff. The default log
> level writes quite a lot of stuff (which is usefull in some cases, so I do
> not want to decrease logging).
> 
> Looking into the source code, I found, that vdr.c calls
> 
>  openlog("vdr", LOG_PID | LOG_CONS, LOG_USER);
> 
> i.e. the facility LOG_USER is hard coded. Is it possible to make this
> configurable, so that I can redirect it to LOG_LOCAL7 and have syslog
> write a separate log file for VDR messages?
> 
> I think this would be a useful feature to have ...

Would it be ok if I changed the '-l' option in a way that, for instance,

  vdr -l 3.7

would set log level 3 and logging to LOG_LOCAL7? Default would still be

  vdr -l 3

which means log level 3 and LOG_USER. The number after the '.' could be
0..7, resulting in LOG_LOCAL0..LOG_LOCAL7.

Klaus
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