Ok, Thankyou for your help. I have got it now.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:

> The standard init scripts detach the OVS daemons from the console, so
> that logging to the console has no effect.  Use file or syslog logging
> instead.
>
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 09:58:38AM +0500, Saleha Asad wrote:
> > I saw this command in a legacy script being used by an older version of
> > OVS. I just had a look at the man page it says that the "For
> compatibility
> > with older versions of OVS, *any* is accepted as a word but has no
> effect",
> > so I now modified my command according to the man page and used the
> > following.
> >
> > ovs-vsctl vlog/set file:off
> > ovs-vsctl vlog/set syslog:off
> > ovs-vsctl vlog/set console:dbg
> >
> > This turns off the log messages for file and syslog and sets the log
> level
> > of console to dbg. But still after using these commands I am unable to
> see
> > any OVS log messages on my console. For example when I used the command
> >
> > ovs-vsctl add-port br1 gre0 -- set interface gre0 type=gre
> > options:remote_ip=abc
> >
> > I should see a warning on the console
> >
> > |WARN|gre0: bad gre 'remote_ip'
> > |ERR|gre0: gre type requires valid 'remote_ip' argument
> >
> > As this is the error I get in the log file when the log messages for file
> > are turned on but I am unable to see anything on the console.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 01:27:36PM +0500, Saleha Asad wrote:
> > > > I am running open-vswitch-1.7.1 on x86. I want to set the log level
> so
> > > that
> > > > all the error messages are printed to the console. For this I am
> using
> > > the
> > > > command:
> > > > ovs-appctl vlog/set ANY:ANY:OFF
> > > >
> > > > From this command what I understand is that it will show all the
> error
> > > > messages on console and in syslog and will turn off the log messages
> for
> > > > file. [...]
> > >
> > > That is wrong, and I can't figure out why you think that.  Why do you
> > > think that this will have that effect?
> > >
>
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