Re: [PATCH] daemon: add --no-syslog to undo implicit --syslog

From: Lucas Werkmeister <mail@lucaswerkmeister.de>
Date: Jan 24, 2018, 10:05 UTC
Message-ID: <b9bde80b-5da8-0d5b-f0a9-4ca1f1a74b23@lucaswerkmeister.de>
In-Reply-To: <18ef807d-a642-17b2-fc32-af0c3b963a71@lucaswerkmeister.de>

On 23.01.2018 23:06, Lucas Werkmeister wrote:

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> Ah, I wasn’t aware of that – so with --detach, --no-syslog would be
> better described as “disables all logging” rather than “log to stderr
> instead”. IMHO it would still make sense to have the --no-syslog option
> (then mainly for use with --inetd) as long as its interaction with
> --inetd is properly documented… do you agree? If yes, I’ll be glad to
> submit another version of the patch.

One alternative idea would be to instead make syslog and stderr logging orthogonal by adding not just --no-syslog, but also --[no-]stderr. For backwards compatibility, --syslog would imply --no-stderr, but you could also enable logging to both channels with --syslog --stderr, or disable all logging with --no-syslog --no-stderr. But that doesn’t really solve the interaction with --detach – --detach --stderr would still be a nonsensical combination.