[horde] Horde logging. Syslog options

[Simon Brereton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: horde-bounces at lists.horde.org [mailto:horde-
> bounces at lists.horde.org] On Behalf Of Michael J Rubinsky
> Quoting Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at buongiorno.com>:
> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: horde-bounces at lists.horde.org [mailto:horde-
> >> bounces at lists.horde.org] On Behalf Of Torsten Krah
> >>
> >> Am Mittwoch, den 28.09.2011, 11:48 -0400 schrieb Simon Brereton:
> >> > My next question, therefore, is - what are the pros and cons of
> >> using
> >> > Syslog?  Does anyone use the syslog option - and if so, why?
> How
> >> do
> >> > you have that setup?
> >>
> >> I am using the syslog option - main reasons is that i have logging
> >> delegated to well known syslog stuff. Using syslog you are able to
> >> use all features you can to with your syslog implementation.
> >> Don't know about cons - maybe someone else do ;).
> >>
> >> horde config:
> >>
> >> $conf['log']['priority'] = 'INFO';
> >> $conf['log']['ident'] = 'HORDE';
> >> $conf['log']['name'] = LOG_LOCAL7;
> >> $conf['log']['type'] = 'syslog';
> >> $conf['log']['enabled'] = true;
> >>
> >>
> >> syslog (using rsyslog) is configured like this:
> >>
> >> local7.*                        -/var/log/horde.log
> >>
> >> /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog - append the /var/log/horde.log file to
> be
> >> rotated.
> >>
> >> Thats the setup, works very well.
> >
> > I thank you.  That works!  But how do you get the sync to log?
> > Presumably, I just revert to $conf[activesync][logging][type]=Horde
> > and then either make local7.sync to log to /var/log/horde/sync.log
> and
> > update /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog is there some other way to do it?
> 
> No idea about the syslog stuff, but with activesync logging set to
> 'Horde', all activesync related messages are logged to your Horde
> log.
> If you want activesync to log messages to a separate file, set it to
> 'Custom' and enter the path to a log file to receive the activesync
> log messages. The 'Custom' log can only write to a separate text
> file, it doesn't have the ability to write to syslog.

Yes, that's why I want to do it that way.  But I can't if I keep getting the Horde_Log_Handler_Stream: "/var/log/horde/horde4.log" cannot be opened with mode "a+" error.

Simon