Re: [Mailzu-users] Logfile localized?

[Brian W. <bw...@gm...>]

On 10/11/05, Paolo Cravero as2594 <pcr...@as...> wrote:
> Hi!
> While attending a presentation of an antivirus vendor this morning, I
> realised I should write a simple crontab script that reads mailzu log
> and lists logins on a daily basis.
>
> (In my organization we generate stats overnight and email them to a
> common mailbox for future references.)
>
> So I checked mailzu's log format and saw that logged messages get
> localized according to end user language choice. Here's an excerpt:
>
> [Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:18:53]     x.y.z.w   pcnet     Autenticazione riusci=
ta
> [Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:05:38]     x.y.z.w   pcnet     Authentication
> successful
>
> I think the output log should contain consistent strings, so that it
> allows easy automated parsing by "third-party" programs.
>
> Patching should be easy: all calls to CmnFns::write_log should not call
> the translate function.
>
> Comments? Have I overlooked something?
> Paolo

Paolo, thanks for your feedback once again. An english-only logfile is
a good idea. Ill make the addition.