[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Use LOG_USER as default syslog facility everywhere in base.

[Ville Skyttä]

On Monday 22 March 2010, James Antill wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 19:57 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > ---
> > 
> >  yum/config.py |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/yum/config.py b/yum/config.py
> > index ad8db7e..cb01306 100644
> > --- a/yum/config.py
> > +++ b/yum/config.py
> > 
> > @@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ class StartupConf(BaseConfig):
> >      pluginconfpath = ListOption(['/etc/yum/pluginconf.d'])
> >      gaftonmode = BoolOption(False)
> >      syslog_ident = Option()
> > 
> > -    syslog_facility = Option('LOG_DAEMON')
> > +    syslog_facility = Option('LOG_USER')
> 
>  Why? This has been the default for years.

"The default" seems to vary.  It's LOG_USER in 
logginglevels.syslogFacilityMap() (fallback for unrecognized facilities) and 
logginglevels.doLoggingSetup() (default if not set), and I think for general 
yum usage, LOG_USER makes more sense than LOG_DAEMON.