Re: Trouble with Loglevel and log generation

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On 26-Nov-04, at 11:14 AM, Stas Bekman wrote:

> mathieu.millet@xxxx.xx wrote:
> [...]
>> More precisely, if I set (for example) the LogLevel to "error", I 
>> only get
>> error and more critical logs AND also "notice" logs (but not warn 
>> logs).
>
> I can reproduce that problem. I'll keep you posted when I get a chance 
> to debug it.
>
>> If I set to anything more critical than notice, I still get notice 
>> logs.
>> For more details :
>> Some versions : Red Hat Entreprise Linux 3
>> Apache 2.0.46 (rpm : 2.0.46-44.ent)
>> Mod_perl 1.99_09 (rpm : 1.99_09-10.ent)
>
> Unrelated, you are using very old versions of component. Please 
> consider upgrading to mp 1.99_17 and Apache 2.0.52. (though I can 
> still see the problem with the latest ones)

This behaviour, although not well documented, is by design. Notice logs 
are (apparently) supposed to be used for startup messages and are never 
masked *unless* you set the error log to use syslog.

You can see this behaviour clearly in httpd/server/log.c, line 375

R.


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