to much syslogging by default

[Pavel Reichl]

On 01/28/2015 07:52 PM, Dan White wrote:
> On 01/28/15 17:51 +0100, Pavel Reichl wrote:
>>
>> On 01/27/2015 06:51 PM, Dan White wrote:
>>> On 01/27/15 18:13 +0100, Pavel Reichl wrote:
>>>> On 01/27/2015 05:38 PM, Dan White wrote:
>>>>>> Would it be possible to change priority of this messages to not 
>>>>>> be printed by default?
>>>>>>
>>>>> What is your configured log_level (if any), and what log level are 
>>>>> you
>>>>> logging at in your syslog config?
>>>>>
>>>> Hello Dan,
>>>>
>>>> I'm not aware the we configure log_level, but if you give me a hint 
>>>> what to grep for I'll check it.
>>>>
>>>> Actually we are using journal, but it seems that the level is 7.
>>>
>>> log_level is a sasl option, and would be configured in the same 
>>> place as
>>> mech_list. For Cyrus IMAP, it would be sasl_log_level within
>>> /etc/imapd.conf, or in a stand alone config file for most other 
>>> servers.
>>>
>> I don't think we use any kind of configuration file.
>> We use SASL via openldap lib so I'm currently looking into its code 
>> to see if they set it, or if we can set it through some openldap lib 
>> option.
>
> It's a file name slapd.conf, located in a sasl specific directory. You
> should consult your OS's documentation for its location. 
> /usr/lib/sasl2 and
> /etc/sasl/ are two common locations.
>
>> Anyway, I'm not sure it will help I looked again through SASL code 
>> and if I understand the code correctly:
>>
>> 1) setting debug_level has no effect
>> 2) there's no way how to use our own log callback
>>
>> Am I right?
>
> I suspect you are right, as your analysis indicates.
Thanks, do you think there's going to be any effort to fix these issues 
any time soon?