From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 13 13:49:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA22709 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:49:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA22700 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:48:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (localhost.lan.awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA04996; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 21:48:05 GMT Message-Id: <199703132148.VAA04996@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Eivind Eklund cc: Harlan Stenn , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppp log file In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 Mar 1997 18:01:21 +0100." <3.0.32.19970313180119.00b53590@dimaga.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 21:48:05 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > At 02:58 PM 3/13/97 +0000, Brian Somers wrote: > >Yep, in practice, ppp doesn't use syslog() ! I've just commited > >a change to -current that traps SIGHUP with a "re-open the logfile" > >routine. I don't yet know if it'll make 2.2-RELEASE. > > IMHO, this is the wrong change - it doesn't look like it should be that > much work to convert ppp to use syslog, which would give us much more > practial logging, and simplify ppp at the same time (the log level stuff > could be taken care of by syslog). > > If you (and everybody else) agree, I'll do it as soon as I've finished and > sent over the other patches. I don't have any problems with using syslog(). I considered it, but then decided that the -HUP thing would be quicker (and may reach 2.2). I'll wait for your patches before doing anything else to ppp (my last mod for the moment is the -HUP doc change - forgot it the first time round). -- Brian , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....