[Zope-Coders] new zLOG

Toby Dickenson tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com
Wed, 27 Nov 2002 18:43:29 +0000


On Wednesday 27 November 2002 6:07 pm, Chris McDonough wrote:

> Nonetheless, I propose that for the default Zope setup run as root we d=
o
> the "less secure" thing, which is to write the logfile as the effective
> user, logging to stderr until this can be done.

> dissent?

Not from me, so long as the "dont write a log file before dropping root" =
trick=20
happens in the file logging backend so that other backends will be able t=
o=20
capture earlier log events too.

The new logging system support pluggable backends, right? It is nice that=
 I=20
will be able to drop in a secure file logger at a later date.



A slightly related question: are you using the new logging framework for =
the=20
access log too?