#1340 MsgUtils reports all syslog entries as error

[Lissa Valletta]

I code xCAT::MsgUtils->message("SI", "Running su - xcatdb -c $cmd ");

But in syslog I get
c68m4mn11 local4:err|error xCAT: Running su - xcatdb -c ' db2 -tvf /tmp/lissa.sql.tmp 2>&1'

Should not come in as a error. This can be either in 2.5.1 or 2.6 Been this way a long time. Also see, everything seems to be reported as an error.
c68m4mn11 local4:err|error xCAT: xCATd: service starting

[Guang Cheng Li]

HI Lissa,

I am not sure if we should do this, I guess the intention of the MsgUtils->message("S" ...) is to log the severe problems of xCAT into syslog, if this is only an informational or warning message, we probably should not redirect it to syslog, it will cause a lot of xCAT syslog entries to be written to syslog, especially when the informational/warning messages come from the compute nodes syslog redirection.

It is a compromise on how many xCAT messages should be redirected to syslog, most of the messages can be written into xCAT log files, but unfortunately xCAT does not have well-organized log files(/var/log/xcat/xcat.log is for the postscripts on compute nodes), maybe we should consider adding some xCAT log files...

[Lissa Valletta]

If SE not input to MsgUtils then it is sysloged as info not error.
Committed revision 7605

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