Re: log level

"Chas. Owens" wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 2:28 PM, gypsy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I downloaded a perl script from http://www.tahina.priv.at/~cm/spam/ and
> > it logs its activity.  I wish to have my logs exclude level 'debug'.
> >
> > Things tried:
> > 1) Contact author -> no reply
> > 2) Alter syslog.conf "mail.*" to "mail.info" and restart syslogd -> No
> > Joy
> > 3) Remove "-d" from the startup parameters -> no logging at all
> >
> > Would someone be so kind as to assist me to alter the code I downloaded
> > so that the logging is as desired?  If so, please provide explanation;
> > I'd prefer to be less of a moron...
> snip
> Hmm, you should at least be seeing results for:
> mylog('info', 'starting');
> and
> mylog('info', 'terminating (EOF)');
> when you don't include -d.  I would suggest going through the code and changing
> mylog('debug', whatever)
> to
> mylog('info', whatever)
> for every message you want to receive (and not using -d)
> 
> Chas. Owens

Chas and David,
Thank you.  You're right, the " -d" does work as expected.  I don't know
how I missed the logged entries when I removed it, but I did.  I _did_
say I was a moron.  This proves I wasn't wrong about that.

I added some comment text at the top of the script to remind me that "
-d" turns on debug level logging and that the syslogd setting is
ignored.

FWIW, I have been using this script for a week now and It Just Works.  I
did remark out the dialup test because I felt it to be a waste of time;
dialup attempts will be denied by RBL.
--
gypsy