From: Greg Hudson Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 15:35:36 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Improve logging documentation X-Git-Tag: krb5-1.18-beta1~109 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=refs%2Fpull%2F942%2Fhead;p=thirdparty%2Fkrb5.git Improve logging documentation The default severity was removed by commit 6ce8fd4cfa2e9b1e92debd204a5b2ddf053cca55 (ticket 8630) but the example still talks about it; remove that text. Add a note about the default being syslog if nothing else is specified, and a note on how to disable logging. ticket: 8813 (new) tags: pullup target_version: 1.17-next --- diff --git a/doc/admin/conf_files/kdc_conf.rst b/doc/admin/conf_files/kdc_conf.rst index 2c6ea18559..e5d896275a 100644 --- a/doc/admin/conf_files/kdc_conf.rst +++ b/doc/admin/conf_files/kdc_conf.rst @@ -642,10 +642,10 @@ Logging specifications may have the following forms: facility is specified, the default is **AUTH**. In the following example, the logging messages from the KDC will go to -the console and to the system log under the facility LOG_DAEMON with -default severity of LOG_INFO; and the logging messages from the -administrative server will be appended to the file -``/var/adm/kadmin.log`` and sent to the device ``/dev/tty04``. :: +the console and to the system log under the facility LOG_DAEMON, and +the logging messages from the administrative server will be appended +to the file ``/var/adm/kadmin.log`` and sent to the device +``/dev/tty04``. :: [logging] kdc = CONSOLE @@ -653,6 +653,9 @@ administrative server will be appended to the file admin_server = FILE:/var/adm/kadmin.log admin_server = DEVICE=/dev/tty04 +If no logging specification is given, the default is to use syslog. +To disable logging entirely, specify ``default = DEVICE=/dev/null``. + .. _otp: