On 03/04/11 07:53, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > Forum: Cfengine Help > Subject: Re: proper logging for cfengine processes > Author: neilhwatson > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,20915,20955#msg-20955 > > Nova has the best logging built in. For community you have to do more work. > I use report promises extensively. When the agent is run from the executor > these reports go to syslog. >
thanks for this info, there is very little info to go on. after searching for further information on this topic (logging) i am left to conclude i am pretty much screwed with cfengine 3 community. i cannot speak on cfengine nova. i would like to think that i am wrong but your comment suggests to me that "if you want real logging, you must pay" which is, imo, ridiculous. the various cf-* daemons work great in the foreground with verbose or debug outputs. unless i am really missing something it seems that it has been made intentionally difficult to get this same information to write to a log. this is unbelievably stupid and could easily be fixed with an hour or two of developer work, but i would be willing to bet a patch would not be accepted. this seems like a *really* poor choice of features to intentionally remove from the unpaid version of the software. without proper logs one really cannot gauge how well the community solution works for their application. removal of the basic features required to test the real world utility of the software make a potential purchaser (me) unlikely to proceed with any purchase because the quality of the goods on display is questionable. there should be a couple simple settings for logging in each daemon's config file e.g. syslog = yes log_level = 3 the apparent lack of any such settings or any accompanying documentation is pretty shocking. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
