Hello everyone! I had some discussions on IRC about logging in OpenSUSE and promised to start a thread here on the ML. I have done a little research among distributions, to have a bigger perspective, and based on that, I have some ideas and questions. More important ones first: * OpenSUSE should log auth and authpriv messages separately (like "all" other distributions do). We certainly can not start a great debate on what to log and where, but I would like to mention some other points too: * OpenSUSE does not log crond messages separately (while nearly "all" other ditros do). Note: This might seem like a "what to log separately and what not to" question, but considering mail as a general service and thus logging it in a separate file - in contrast to crond - make me think of an advise: "Add a filter to crond if you plan to use that special service a lot - thus spamming your messages log file" :) * Logging some messages to other files, should not we filter them out from messages? (I did not check this one, it might be daemon specific (like ntp), but one with a deeper insight could check it). One last note, for those who might ask about "other distributions do it": Please do not misunderstand me, I do not want OpenSUSE to become like the others, but a nice, general harmony (maybe not only in logging style) could be achieved among the distributions, so people using different linuxes could feel more confortable :) Thank you, Looking forward for your feedback, Gregory -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org