Re: syslog level or (open)ldap level?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> Recently, while trying to fix what I considered a bug, I changed the
> parsing of slapd's '-s' option to reflect what was my interpretation of
> the slapd(8) man page, i.e. tell slapd to log at a certain syslog level
> (LOG_* according to syslog(3)).  In fact, in the sources, the variable
> ldap_syslog_level is initialized to LOG_DEBUG which seems pretty safe. 
> However, the tests set it to 0 (in scripts/defines.sh:
> SLAPD="../servers/slapd/slapd -s0") which, at least on my Linux box, means
> LOG_EMERG, i.e. everything gets sent to every console.  Could anybody
> clarify if my interpretation of '-s' is correct, and if syslog's numerical
> values are portable?  I'll definitely write a friendly parser for -s,
> though.

No, the "-s" option isn't supposed to set the ldap_syslog_level, it sets 
ldap_syslog to select which debug levels will be syslogged. There is no 
control/knob/option for setting ldap_syslog_level, nor does it seem 
necessary to create one.

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