Re: log files and stdout

" 2> /dev/null "

yes I know........still the software goes thru the actions of printing it, it is the device driver  that then dumps it to a void,
so potentially many m/c cycles could be saved by not needing it at all, no?

I still don't get it with the array of logfiles...lol

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Andreas Fink 
  To: fred 
  Cc: devel 
  Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 1:44 AM
  Subject: Re: log files and stdout -#- MailID:5HAA




  On 07.11.2005, at 14:38, fred wrote:


    Just a question about the logging mechanism that is annoying me.......

    if the configuration has set

    log-file="kannel.log"

    and you start ./bearerbox -v 0 smskannel2.conf 2>bearer.log &


    kannel.log and bearer.log contain the same lines !! I find no use for this duplication ............


  this is normal. Kannel logs to stderr and to any logfile you specify in the config.
  you can simply start bearerbox with 2> /dev/null and you dont have any duplicatas.





    is this how its supposed to be ? (or else its because I may have done something by accident to my code!!)

    my thinking is if a log-file = named is configured, well thats where all the logging should go,
    except perhaps stderr?  

    I am not really clear on what the idea is behind the array of logfiles ? why is it necessary ? etc?

    gwlib\log.c

    static struct {
        FILE *file;
        int minimum_output_level;
        char filename[FILENAME_MAX + 1]; /* to allow re-open */
        enum excl_state exclusive;
    } logfiles[MAX_LOGFILES];

    yeah, I'm reading the code, but it brings me more questions.....it might help
    if we knew what the author was thinking of?















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