[bind10-dev] Generic approach to #3003

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

Hello

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 07:42:08AM +0530, Mukund Sivaraman wrote:
> On writing traceback to a file, where would this file be stored? There
> are things to consider such as what to do with old files, permissions,
> multiple components, etc.

Well, there are two options. One is /tmp (or any other temporary-files
directory). The other is /var/lib/bind10 or where are placed files of bind10 by
default.

As with permissions, it should be readable by the bind10 user only.

And, as the message would be FATAL, I think it's OK to just note to the admin to
remove it after examination. Every admin should look into FATAL messages.

> Our log output already includes multi-line messages (and sometimes
> contains exception traces already), so can't we just log the traceback?

But on debug level only. I think it is acceptable to have it on debug-only ‒
most admins will not run with that, but they'll likely employ some line-based
utility to watch over the logs.

I don't think a traceback should be on debug only ;-).

With regards

-- 
I left the ssh key under the doormat

Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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