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

Richard Sharpe rsharpe at richardsharpe.com
Tue Jan 4 20:44:18 GMT 2005


On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Volker Lendecke wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:28:50AM -0800, John Gerth wrote:
> > 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.
>
> If you guard it by an option like 'debug pid', defaulting to false I like that
> idea.

Yes, that would make it of use to developers but keep the clutter down in
log files for normal users.

Regards
-----
Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]richardsharpe.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org,
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com


More information about the samba-technical mailing list