[X2go-Dev] X2go Server and syslogging

John A. Sullivan III jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com
Fri Sep 9 19:01:18 CEST 2011


On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 18:54 +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> On Fr 09 Sep 2011 18:52:22 CEST "John A. Sullivan III" wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 18:31 +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> >> hi all,
> >>
> >> today I have added syslog support to all X2go Server scripts.
> >> Currently, two log levels are used:
> >>
> >>    debug -> mostly for db debugging
> >>    info -> write to syslog whenever one of the X2go Server commands  
> >> is called
> >>
> >> The default loglevel is ,,notice''. For this level, I plan to log if a
> >> session has been started/suspended/resumed/terminated.
> >>
> >> More to come later,
> >> Mike
> > <snip>
> > Not that it's critically important but, if you insert the word ERROR
> > when logging an error condition, I believe it can be picked up by OSSEC
> > for log reporting - John
> 
> Not sure what your request is: shall I avoid that or include that as a  
> feature?
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
Hi, Mike.  It was just information.  As you craft the message for error
conditions, if you use the string ERROR, OSSEC users will be able to
pick up those error automatically and alert on them.  It would be nice
feature for OSSEC users (like us!).  Thanks - John




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