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

[John Dennis]

On 03/01/2013 04:01 PM, John Dennis wrote:
> On 03/01/2013 03:17 PM, KodaK wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:01 PM, John Dennis <jdennis at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> On 02/28/2013 05:34 PM, KodaK wrote:
>>
>>> BTW, why are you parsing diagnostic output?
>>
>> I haven't actually started yet, I was just getting my bearings.
>>
>> I was going to wrap the commands in some scripts so I can do things
>> like allow an auditor to view the results of an HBAC test without
>> being able to modify them.  Among other things.  Is there a way to
>> turn off the diagnostic messages?  They appear to be on by default.
>>
>
> INFO messages are output when the verbose flag is enabled
> DEBUG messages are output when the debug flag is enabled
>
> Those flags can either be set in a config file (/etc/ipa/default.conf or
> ~/.ipa/default.con) or via a command line argument.
>
> If you haven't passed the verbose flag to the command then it must be
> set in one of the config files.
>
> Petr Viktorin <pviktori at redhat.com> recently cleaned up how messages are
> managed in the command line tools (I don't think this has made it out
> into a public release yet). So there may be changes coming you'll want
> to be aware of, perhaps Petr might fill us in on what's different.
>
> I think we had some client tools that forced verbose to be enabled when
> it should have respected a command line option and/or config option. I
> think that's some of what Petr fixed.
>

Here is the design document for the work Petr did, HTH

http://freeipa.org/page/V3/Logging_and_output


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