[horde] Horde logs stuffed with foreign program logging info

[Louis-Philippe Allard]

Quoting Michael J Rubinsky <mrubinsk at horde.org>:
>> 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.
>   >>>   >>    
>   >>>   >
>   >>>   > Are you sure horde isn't logging to syslog?
>   >>>   > --
>   >>>   > Mike
>
>   >> Could be.  I'd like to tell, but since last update Ive lost my
>   >> Administration entry in the left hand side menu. All I have now is:
>   >
>   > Your username is no longer in the conf[auth][admin] array in
>   > horde/config/conf.php
Might be weird to say, but my name is indeed in the conf[auth][admin]
array...  Yesterday I was fooling around trying to do something and I had
the Admin menu showing up in a smaller menu just right of the left
menu...  There is definitely a glitch there.

Louis-Philippe Allard
lp.allard.1 at gmail.com
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