Re: Logging questions

David Röthlisberger <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:37:41 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.polipo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 21 Aug 2013, at 02:18, [email protected] wrote:
> How do I disable logging completely for Polipo?

logLevel = 0x0

> If that's not possible, how do I limit logging to the least verbose setting (presumably L_ERROR)?

logLevel = 0x1

> Finally: the reason I'm disabling logging is partly because I don't need it on a day to day basis, but partly because, despite having
> logFile = /foo/bar
> logSyslog = false
> at the bottom of my Config file, Polipo still logs to /var/log

Are you sure that your config file is being read? Run `polipo -v` and
check that the values match what you're expecting to be set from your
config file.

> I'm running 1.0.4.1 on Debian 7 "Wheezy" - is this setting not available in that version?  I just discovered that scrubLogs didn't appear until 1.0.5, so maybe logFile's missing too…


Run `polipo -v` and see if that option is present.


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