Purpose of use_syslog

Jon Angliss jon at netdork.net
Tue Jun 2 04:34:57 CEST 2009


On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:51:48 -0600, "Steven D. Morrey"
<smorrey at ldschurch.org> wrote:

>Hi Everyone,
>
>I've decided to take a long hard look at my config files and have a question about some of the options.
>In particular I'd like a little more information on the use_syslog option.
>
>If enabled does this option use syslog instead of, or in addition to the internal log?

Documentation doesn't make it entirely clear, but a quick peek into
base/logging.c hints that use_syslog means it will log to both when
set to 1, at least that's how I'm reading the code.

--  
Jonathan Angliss
<jon at netdork.net>


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