/**
control the name of the logfile and whether logging will be to stdout, stderr
- or a file
+ or a file, and set up syslog
+
+ new_log indicates the destination for the debug log (an enum in
+ order of precedence - once set to DEBUG_FILE, it is not possible to
+ reset to DEBUG_STDOUT for example. This makes it easy to override
+ for debug to stderr on the command line, as the smb.conf cannot
+ reset it back to file-based logging
*/
_PUBLIC_ void setup_logging(const char *prog_name, enum debug_logtype new_logtype)
{
/* The following definitions come from lib/debug.c */
-/* Possible destinations for the debug log (in order of precedence,
- * only a higher value will override a lower value */
+/** Possible destinations for the debug log (in order of precedence -
+ * once set to DEBUG_FILE, it is not possible to reset to DEBUG_STDOUT
+ * for example. This makes it easy to override for debug to stderr on
+ * the command line, as the smb.conf cannot reset it back to
+ * file-based logging */
enum debug_logtype {DEBUG_DEFAULT_STDERR = 0, DEBUG_STDOUT = 1, DEBUG_FILE = 2, DEBUG_STDERR = 3};
void setup_logging(const char *prog_name, enum debug_logtype new_logtype);
/**
control the name of the logfile and whether logging will be to stdout, stderr
or a file, and set up syslog
+
+ new_log indicates the destination for the debug log (an enum in
+ order of precedence - once set to DEBUG_FILE, it is not possible to
+ reset to DEBUG_STDOUT for example. This makes it easy to override
+ for debug to stderr on the command line, as the smb.conf cannot
+ reset it back to file-based logging
*/
void setup_logging(const char *prog_name, enum debug_logtype new_logtype)
{