The "set log target" operation is supported only by pacmd. The functionality should be added to pactl too (and therefore to the client interface). Also, currently the "newfile" target is only supported when it's given as a command line parameter to the daemon or in daemon.conf. The target parsing should be centralized in pulsecore/log.c, so that all targets will always be availble with all interfaces (command line, daemon.conf, pacmd, pactl).
A note about security: setting a new target, especially a file target, should probably be prohibited by default in all other cases except when running in the per-user mode and the client is running under the same user as the server. This is not currently a problem, because pacmd doesn't work remotely nor in the system mode, but if the functionality is added to pactl too, it makes it possible for anyone who has access the pulseaudio server to write (and overwrite) files anywhere where the pulseaudio process has write access.
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