[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 1107 smartproxy cleanup

[Rob Crittenden]

Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 09:12 -0400, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>> Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>> Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>>> Remove some unused files, fix an import which means we don't need to
>>>> import from ipaserver, fix up Requires so it should work better running
>>>> on a different box than the IPA server.
>>>
>>> Found and fixed a couple more minor issues.
>>
>> Fix one more issue. This sets the ipa client log to /dev/null to
>> suppress the error
>>
>> ipa: ERROR: Could not create log_dir u'/var/www/.ipa/log'
>
> What is the purpose of sending the bootstrap logs for smartproxy
> to /dev/null?

It is all client logs. The smartproxy acts as an IPA client and clients 
log some things in ~/.ipa/log by default. We don't really want these 
logs in this case, it's logged anyway, and this suppresses the error by 
writing things to the bit bucket.

The other way would be to add an option to not log but that seems like 
overkill.

rob