[horde] Horde logging. Syslog options

[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 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.

This is almost certainly a filesystem permsissions, or webserver  
configuration issue. If you are *sure* that the directory/file  
permissions are ok, then check for server restrictions like  
open_basedir or similar.  You can also try a path in the same  
directory as the apache log and see if that helps.


-- 
mike

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