Re: beagle error logging

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Charles-Henri d'Adhémar
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello !
>
>> what about add a message to the log and stop logging?
>> so that search etc. will continue to work but no logs are written
>> until the daemon is restarted.
>
> I totally agree with this solution : if the user did not noticed the
> error but only the log file size it means that the error is not
> critical for beagled daily usage. Then there is no reason to shutdown
> beagled.
>
> As far as I remember, the last time I had a problem with the log file
> size was with a particular file type (MS Word documents indexing error
> and it was about a year ago). In such a situation the user will notice
> some of its MS Word document are not indexed, grep the log and see one
> error message saying something like "too much errors with the MS Word
> document indexer, error logging stopped".
>
> It sounds like a sain and easy to understand behavior for the end user.
>

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