Reducing log verbosity

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 19:45 -0700, Bryan Hill wrote:
> thanks!  I figured that might be the case after looking into this in
> more detail.

A better solution, IMHO, is to post-filter.  The filtering provided by
Syslog is pretty crude and requires bouncing the syslog service to
change.  If you use syslog-ng you can specify a pipeline as a
destination, either a command or socket, etc... so you can get much more
granular about what logs to keep and you can modify the logging level
without effecting the service.  If your mail host uses the old syslog,
which ours do, you can ship the logs over the network [syslog support
network logging, even the old one] to a syslog-ng log server where you
can play with the logs all you want.

<http://mosg.googlegroups.com/web/Logging-WMLUG-200906.pdf?gda=yRVyn0oAAABw6HckmRln_4yUX8BzAUFLv7fdB_xUGxz6YUeUtmWt4DR3ZV5hCDKRXT-CthMVOlIwLF4ohGElurQ42NwcJ7pp_e3Wg0GnqfdKOwDqUih1tA&gsc=jvC6DwsAAAAobgScHyPB6BxVxV3YA2wp>

> > Rebuild cyrus using a LOCAL syslog facility rather than MAIL.  We
> > use LOCAL6.  Then adjust the verbosity by adjusting the log level
> > in /etc/syslog.conf:
> > local6.info -/var/log/imapd.log
> > local6.debug  = most verbose
> > local6.info   = less verbose
> > local6.notice = even less verbose
> > ..
> > Bryan Hill wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > > I've been Googling for an answer, but haven't come up with any
> > > working solution.  I would like to turn down the verbosity of my
> > > Cyrus logs but have not been successful.
> > > I'm using the Invoca cyrus build (latest from the website) on
> > > Centos 5.3.  I've tried setting the  CYRUS_VERBOSE environmental
> > > variable but it seems to ignore any alue I put in.  I'm doing this
> > > in the init.d script.
> > > Any hints as to what I'm doing wrong?
> > > Thanks,
> > > Bryan

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