[Freeipa-users] Standard Logging

[Petr Spacek]

On 17.6.2014 19:24, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Innes, Duncan wrote:
>> Fair call Rob, I should have put "standard" in quotes.  I think I meant
>> to.
>>
>> I know applications doing their own logging is pretty wide spread too.
>> It's just that moving to a more unified tool that performed the logging,
>> remote shipping, rotation, compression etc (where required) would be
>> great.
>>
>> Whilst I like journald a lot, it still misses native log shipping.  I
>> think it's being worked on though.
>>
>> As an IdM user, I figure I'll have to wait around quite a while to get
>> any such features.
>
> Yeah, sorry about that. Audit is one of those things where the word
> "just" comes up a lot which usually means trouble :-)
>>
>> I'll have a poke around with using rsyslog for some IPA logs just now.
>
> That would be great. Please share the things you learn.

Feel free to create wiki page, e.g.
http://www.freeipa.org/page/Howto/Logging_to_syslog

Your ordinary Fedora account will allow you to log-in and create the page.

Thank you for your time!

Petr^2 Spacek

>
> regards
>
> rob
>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Duncan
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Rob Crittenden [mailto:rcritten at redhat.com]
>>> Sent: 17 June 2014 17:07
>>> To: Innes, Duncan; freeipa-users at redhat.com
>>> Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Standard Logging
>>>
>>> Innes, Duncan wrote:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> Is there any movement towards getting FreeIPA to use more standard
>>>> logging tools?  Journald or rsyslog.
>>>
>>> I wouldn't exactly call servers logging to their own files as
>>> non-standard.
>>>
>>> You can theoretically configure most services to use at least
>>> rsyslogd now. I says theoretically because we haven't tried
>>> in the context of IPA but I doubt you'd be plowing any new
>>> ground by configuring it.
>>>
>>>> Wondering because at the moment, the rotation of logs is
>>> non standard
>>>> compared to most of the rest of our estate.  It would be a
>>> boost for
>>>> us to know that rsyslog/journald are handling the logging
>>> (enabling us
>>>> to get the log files sent over the network) and logrotate
>>> is rotating
>>>> the logs and can compress logs if we want (which we do).
>>>
>>> There is a long-term ticket to use journald,
>>> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4296