[Olsr-dev] DebugLevel that is actually zero

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Sending to syslog is fine by me, I need to be able to have no output to
stderr/stdout.  I'm happy to do this work of finding the messages and
making the post at debug level 1, if there are no objections.

.hc

On 07/17/2012 12:34 PM, Henning Rogge wrote:
> I think we would have to do even more to make OLSRd shut up... because
> some error messages are directly channeled to the syslog... and I
> think some are just printed without looking at the debug_level.
> 
> Henning
> 
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
> <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>>
>> I can't recall seeing a debug level range from -1 to 9 in another app.
>> I think debug level 0 is pretty widely understood to mean no messages,
>> so IMHO I think the best solution would be to change the messages that
>> are posting to level 0.
>>
>> If that's not feasible then perhaps the absence of "-d " on the command
>> line would mean no messages.  Then there could be "Debug yes/no" in
>> olsrd.conf to control whether there are messages or not.
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On 07/14/2012 03:12 AM, Henning Rogge wrote:
>>> There are some plugins and OS specific parts that seem to use level 0
>>> for error output.
>>>
>>> Easiest fix would be allowing -1 as a debug level, because its stored
>>> as an "int" anyways internally.
>>>
>>> Henning
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
>>> <(spam-protected)> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> One thing that would be very useful is a way to really turn off all
>>>> debug messages.  The current "DebugLevel 0" still outputs quite a bit of
>>>> stuff.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to actually get zero debug messages, like no output to
>>>> stdout and stderr at all?  If not, I think it would be good to make
>>>> "DebugLevel 0" actually output zero.
>>>>
>>>> .hc
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