New logging configuration (was Re: [Sqlgrey-users] "Probable spam" log entries)

[Lionel B. <lio...@bo...>]

Michael Storz wrote the following on 17.03.2005 12:40 :

>On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Lionel Bouton wrote:
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>>Funny logging is mentionned now :
>>I'm currently reworking the logging and adding categories in the process
>>so as to allow users to choose what they want to log more precisely.
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>Could you describe what the new model of logging looks like? Maybe we'll
>have suggestions what to include based on our needs.
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Nothing is carved in stone yet, but the idea is to split logging into 
categories. I've made a quick pass on the existing log() statements and 
have identified several preliminary categories:

greylisting: decisions based on greylisting algos
whitelist: decisions based on whitelists
dbaccess: db upgrades, db access errors,
martians: things coming from Postfix we aren't expecting,
mail: mails sent to the administrator,
spam: detected spam attempts
perf: time spent in most intensive operations
system: forks
conf: conf loading/reloading
other: ...

My current plan is to continue using a default loglevel but to allow 
overriding it for each of these categories.

Instead of "debug", "verbose", "normal", "quiet", ...
There will be something like:
default_loglevel = 2
loglevel_override = perf:4,mail:0

with 0:silent -> 4:debug

Lionel.