[Freeipa-users] What does the "u" mean in IPA messages?

[Rob Crittenden]

nick hatch wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:01 PM, John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> BTW, why are you parsing diagnostic output?  They are not part of the
>> official API. We do not have any consistency rules for INFO and DEBUG
>> messages, they can change at any time and often do. On the other hand
>> command output is fairly consistent and not subject to the capricious whims
>> of developers.
>
> Not the original poster, but parsing log events is commonly done prior
> to saving them in a structured data store as a transitional measure
> while efforts like CEE and Project Lumberjack [1] stabilize.
>
> For example, the popular Logstash project provides a library of
> patterns for common services [2]. For users who parse FreeIPA logs,
> frequent log formatting changes could be disruptive.
>
> -n
>
> [1] https://fedorahosted.org/lumberjack/
> [2] http://logstash.net/docs/1.1.9/filters/grok

That's a good point. What John is talking about though are informative 
messages output by the client tool, not something that would end up in a 
log.

rob