[Freeipa-users] writing IPA plugin

[Rob Crittenden]

Stijn De Weirdt wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i'm trying to write my own FreeIPA plugin (for frontend cli usage), and
> so far so good, but i'm stuck on 2 issues:
> - is it possible to have the plugin use a dedicated or additional log
> file? i can manipulate the log manager, but maybe there's a proper API
> in freeipa for it; similar to the log_file_name in
> ipapython.admin.AdminTool classes
>
> - i want to exit the plugin on certain error conditions and want to exit
> with non-zero exitcode. how can this be done?

Which side do you want to do the logging on, the server or client side?

The return value is controlled by the exception raised. There is an rval 
attribute defined in the exception.

rob