Innes, Duncan wrote: > Fair call Rob, I should have put "standard" in quotes. I think I meant > to. > > I know applications doing their own logging is pretty wide spread too. > It's just that moving to a more unified tool that performed the logging, > remote shipping, rotation, compression etc (where required) would be > great. > > Whilst I like journald a lot, it still misses native log shipping. I > think it's being worked on though. > > As an IdM user, I figure I'll have to wait around quite a while to get > any such features.
Yeah, sorry about that. Audit is one of those things where the word "just" comes up a lot which usually means trouble :-) > > I'll have a poke around with using rsyslog for some IPA logs just now. That would be great. Please share the things you learn. regards rob > > Cheers > > Duncan > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Rob Crittenden [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: 17 June 2014 17:07 >> To: Innes, Duncan; [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Standard Logging >> >> Innes, Duncan wrote: >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> Is there any movement towards getting FreeIPA to use more standard >>> logging tools? Journald or rsyslog. >> >> I wouldn't exactly call servers logging to their own files as >> non-standard. >> >> You can theoretically configure most services to use at least >> rsyslogd now. I says theoretically because we haven't tried >> in the context of IPA but I doubt you'd be plowing any new >> ground by configuring it. >> >>> Wondering because at the moment, the rotation of logs is >> non standard >>> compared to most of the rest of our estate. It would be a >> boost for >>> us to know that rsyslog/journald are handling the logging >> (enabling us >>> to get the log files sent over the network) and logrotate >> is rotating >>> the logs and can compress logs if we want (which we do). >> >> There is a long-term ticket to use journald, >> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4296 >> >> rob >> >> This message has been checked for viruses and spam by the >> Virgin Money email scanning system powered by Messagelabs. >> > > This message has been checked for viruses and spam by the Virgin Money email > scanning system powered by Messagelabs. > > This e-mail is intended to be confidential to the recipient. If you receive a > copy in error, please inform the sender and then delete this message. > > Virgin Money plc - Registered in England and Wales (Company no. 6952311). > Registered office - Jubilee House, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne NE3 4PL. > Virgin Money plc is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and > regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation > Authority. > > The following companies also trade as Virgin Money. They are both authorised > and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, are registered in England > and Wales and have their registered office at Jubilee House, Gosforth, > Newcastle upon Tyne NE3 4PL: Virgin Money Personal Financial Service Limited > (Company no. 3072766) and Virgin Money Unit Trust Managers Limited (Company > no. 3000482). > > For further details of Virgin Money group companies please visit our website > at virginmoney.com > _______________________________________________ Freeipa-users mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/freeipa-users
