Purpose of use_syslog

[Hendrik Baecker]

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Jon Angliss schrieb:
> 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.
> 

You are right with this.
use_syslog = 1 enables syslog loggin as an addition to the normal file
logging.

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Hendrik
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