IP address in log messages vs. a separate log file per IP

[Richard Sharpe]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, John H Terpstra wrote:

> On Tuesday 04 January 2005 11:28, John Gerth wrote:
> > In the wake of moving over the last year from NT to Samba PDCs
> > (both for my own group and helping other people), I've had to chase
> > a number of annoying residual problems for which the samba debug
> > log messages proved invaluable.  However, they would've been much
> > more valuable several times if there had been an option to get
> > the IP address included in the bracketed message header, e.g.
> >     [2006/01/04 09:26:39, 1, 10.0.0.1] ....
> > in order to be able to see where the request was being generated.
>
> I would strongly object to such a modification as it will add needlessly to
> the already burgeoning volume of log information. As you show in the remained
> of your message that I cut for brevity, it is possible to collect log info
> per IP address using the %m and %M macros to the "log file" parameter. I
> believe this is the preferred method.
>
> No offense is meant, but this modification just adds to the log noise level.
> That's a bad thing in my NSHO.

Hmmm, well we run with timestamp logs = no, but I find that for many of my
debugging needs, I actually need timestamp logs = yes. Generally I know
exactly what client my messages relate to, but I can concede that there
will be times when it would be useful to have that info in the logs,
especially if you are trying to debug problems associated with multiple
clients where the problems only occur when they access the server nearly
simultaneously.

Regards
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