Re: Logging to syslog

[John Espiro <john_espiro@yahoo.com>]

On 2/2/2011 8:13 PM, Dieter Kluenter wrote:
> Am Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:43:27 +0100
> schrieb John Espiro <john_espiro@yahoo.com>:
>
>> I have tied in a few things such as openid-ldap and openfire to use my
>> ldap backend for authentication.  I am wondering if it is possible to
>> collect error logs for any invalid attempt that a user tries with
>> these various applications.  Rather than handling it at the
>> application level, can I get openldap to log these events?  If so,
>> can someone point me to a link that explains it?
> OpenLDAP logs to local4, thus you may configure syslog to print slapd
> logs to a particular logfile. Next set a decent loglevel, stats or acl,
> grep slapd.log for err=49
>
> -Dieter
Thanks for this, it makes sense.  Where do I put the loglevel paramter? 
I don't have a slapd.conf, but I do have /etc/ldap.conf -- but putting
it in there doesn't seem to have any effect.