suggestions for an inn 2.3 release

Heath Kehoe heath.kehoe at intermec.com
Wed Mar 29 15:29:46 UTC 2000


This has already been fixed in 2.3.  You can set which facility
is used with a configure option, and the supporting scripts
will use the configured setting as well as the compiled programs.

-heath

>
>In inn 2.2-1999-12-21-03-02
>Many of the supporting scripts/programs seem to  syslog 
>directly to the 'news' (or 'mail') facility, rather than
>taking note of the compile time configurable parameters like LOG_FACILITY
>
>This has proved awkward for us when we have sought to set LOG_FACILITY
>to eg local5
>
>It would be great if everything that logs to a configurable place.
>
>SUGGESTION:  this might mean that the log_facility settings should
>be places in inn.conf, so that all parts of inn can access it and then use it.
>
>Regards
>Todd Olson
>Cornell University
>
>PS  yes, I know that it would be helpful if I provided patches for this
>    but I am heavily drawn off to other projects for the next several 
>    months ... after that maybe(?) I can attempt it ...
>
>
>




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