Re: [hylafax-users] hfaxd logging

["Daniel L. Miller" <dmiller@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/7/2010 11:45 PM, Lee Howard wrote:
> Daniel L. Miller wrote:
> > How can I turn off logging hfaxd standard operation?  Everytime 
> > faxstat is called, four lines appear in my daemon.log:
> >
> > Dec  7 17:57:07 foxy HylaFAX[5874]: Looks like extended syntax: 
> > "|1|192.168.0.10|53785|" [7C: |]
> > Dec  7 17:57:07 foxy HylaFAX[5874]: `-> Got a: 192.168.0.10[16]
> > Dec  7 17:57:07 foxy HylaFAX[5874]: `-> Got a: 53785[22]
> > Dec  7 17:57:07 foxy HylaFAX[5874]: Parsed: Family 1 Address 
> > 192.168.0.10 Port 53785
> >
> > I've tried changing ServerTracing in /usr/local/lib/fax/hfaxd.conf - 
> > I can get MORE information, but even setting it to 0 does not stop 
> > the logging.  How do i KILL IT?!
>
> Apparently you've configured your syslog to send debug messages to 
> your daemon.log file.  The messages you quote there are hfaxd debug 
> messages.
>
> So, in your syslog.conf file you must have some line that says:
>
> *.debug      /var/log/daemon.log

Thanks, Lee!

My current installation (Ubuntu Karmic) uses syslog-ng.  The default 
configuration has everything for the daemon facility logged to the 
daemon.log file.  Also daemon is included in the debug.log file.  To 
resolve this, I've changed two lines in /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf:

filter f_daemon { facility(daemon); };
  becomes
filter f_daemon { facility(daemon) and not level(debug); };

and then to keep debug clear:
filter f_debug { level(debug) and not facility(auth, authpriv, news, 
mail); };
  becomes
filter f_debug { level(debug) and not facility(auth, authpriv, news, 
mail, daemon); };

anyone using xconsole would need a bit more work in that filter as well.

Hope this finds its way into a google search archive - probably more 
than one person looking for this.  I don't understand why these messages 
can't be turned off within Hylafax - but I'll take my working fax server 
and just say, "Thank You" for everything it does and happily install the 
current workaround.

I think what really makes these messages an issue are clients that 
provide constant status updates using the faxstat utility - like 
Avantfax.  Every 15 seconds it polls the server - which means those 
messages just keep on popping up in the logs.  I would suggest adding an 
entry to your "howto" section of the website describing the issue and 
this workaround - if it was a wiki I'd do it for you.
--
Daniel


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