[horde] Horde logs stuffed with foreign program logging info

Michael J Rubinsky mrubinsk at horde.org
Wed Jun 22 23:08:19 UTC 2011


Louis-Philippe Allard <lp.allard.1 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Quoting Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>>> Louis-Philippe Allard <lp.allard.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   >
>>   >> Hello,
>>   >>
>>   >>   I know it will quite seems strange, but I discovered that
>logging
>>   >> information from misc non horde related applications (such as
>>   >> Zoneminder
>>   >> (home surveillance framework)) are stored in Horde'a logs as
>well as in
>>   >> the
>>   >> Activesync logs.
>>   >>
>>   >> For example below, the Horde log is "contaminated" with
>zoneminder
>>   >> info. 
>>   >> Lines such as:
>>   >>
>>   >> [code]Jun 22 17:39:56 lhost2 zmc_dvideo0[2088]: INF [Monitor0:
>32000 -
>>   >> Capturing at 7.75 fps]
>>   >> Jun 22 17:39:59 lhost2 zma_m4[2092]: INF [Monitor0: 32000 -
>Processing
>>   >> at
>>   >> 7.75 fps]
>>   >>   Jun 22 17:42:09 lhost2 zmc_dvideo0[2088]: INF [Monitor0: 33000
>-
>>   >> Capturing at 7.52 fps]
>>   >> Jun 22 17:42:12 lhost2 zma_m4[2092]: INF [Monitor0: 33000 -
>Processing
>>   >> at
>>   >> 7.52 fps]
>>   >>   Jun 22 17:43:56 lhost2 sshd[3929]: Accepted password for root
>from
>>   >> 192.168.0.106 port 49844 ssh2
>>   >>   Jun 22 17:44:16 lhost2 zmc_dvideo0[2088]: INF [Monitor0: 34000
>-
>>   >> Capturing at 7.87 fps]
>>   >> Jun 22 17:44:19 lhost2 zma_m4[2092]: INF [Monitor0: 34000 -
>Processing
>>   >> at
>>   >> 7.87 fps][/code]
>>   >>
>>   >>   What can cause applications to send info to the horde logs? 
>These
>>   >> applications are NOT configured to send data to horde's logs and
>I
>>   >> double
>>   >> checked this.  They have their own logs.  TO me it looks like
>Horde is
>>   >> using some way to retrieve the system dmesg or similar and then
>stores
>>   >> to
>>   >> its logs.
>>   >>
>>   >>   Can someone help?
>>   >>
>>   >>   Because of that, my active sync log is usually around 20MB
>which is
>>   >> almost impossible to use for troubleshooting.
>>   >>    
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>>   > Are you sure horde isn't logging to syslog?
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>>   > Mike
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>In $horde/config/conf.php
>
>$conf['log']['name'] = '/var/log/horde.log'
>
>and
>
>$conf['acctivesync']['logging']['path'] =
>'/var/log/horde_activesync.log'

No idea then, sorry.
--
Mike
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