PolicyKit and syslog

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Nov 24 17:06:22 UTC 2009



On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Matthias Clasen wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 11:48 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
>>>
>>
>> when the policies are updated it is policy kit that has to be involved.
>> polkitd is running, at least.
>
> That might be ok to log, indeed. polkitd need not be running, though. It
> is activated as needed.
>
>> It would make sense for polkitd to note a change to a policy. Maybe also
>> to note any communications to polkitd of any kind.
>
> That I would consider spamming. But maybe at absurd log levels...

Policy changes should be warning level notices b/c it notes a change in 
state.

any/all communication should be at debug level notices.

debugging is a lot easier when you can follow the whole process along.


-sv








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