| Summary: | Ability to log to syslog | ||
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| Product: | xorg | Reporter: | Jérôme Carretero <cJ-X> |
| Component: | Server/General | Assignee: | Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Xorg Project Team <xorg-team> |
| Severity: | enhancement | ||
| Priority: | medium | CC: | freedesktop-bugzilla, peter.hutterer |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
Is there any decision concerning this request? No, there is no decision - it's not rejected, but no one has yet thought its useful enough to spend the time writing the code to make it happen. There are far more things X could do than people with time to do them. fwiw, GDM now starts the X server to log exclusively to stdout and GDM then forwards this to the systemd journal. Any reason this can't be done for syslog? At the time the issue was open I hadn't thought about using stdout or stderr as eg. gdm is doing, which is flexible enough to close the issue. ok, thanks for the update, closing this now. |
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It would add a minimum LOC in xorg-server to provide the ability to log to the syslog. X is currently one of the last mainstream daemon which does not provide a way to log to the syslog. Using syslog provides control over the way the logs are processed (eg. buffered writes which are nice on SSDs, destination control, ignores, log rotation). A lot of troubleshooting guides are talking about reading /var/log/Xorg.0.log for info, so I don't think disabling the current logging system by default would be wise... Basically, the syslog-only part of os/log.c would look like : #define SYSLOG_NAMES #include <syslog.h> const char * LogInit(const char *fname, const char *backup) { openlog("Xorg", 0, LOG_LOCAL0); return "/dev/null"; } void LogClose(void) { closelog(); } void LogVWrite(int verb, const char *f, va_list args) { vsyslog(LOG_INFO, f, args); }