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author | ajs <ajs> | 2005-02-03 17:12:01 +0000 |
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committer | ajs <ajs> | 2005-02-03 17:12:01 +0000 |
commit | c70257d0afa4df7c838dc7c8f5948baca5f12657 (patch) | |
tree | fb5c1333bd7cf222c3c7054b97c0c6cecc350ec9 /doc/basic.texi | |
parent | 1e2213541bbda26c49667b699a333d87bcc0f2e6 (diff) |
2005-02-03 Andrew J. Schorr <ajschorr@alumni.princeton.edu>
* basic.texi: Add note about last-resort crash logging to /var/tmp
when file logging is not configured.
* quagga.info: updated build of autogenerated file
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/basic.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/basic.texi b/doc/basic.texi index cbbdea49..9c6b59a4 100644 --- a/doc/basic.texi +++ b/doc/basic.texi @@ -116,6 +116,12 @@ If the optional second argument specifying the logging level is not present, the default logging level (typically debugging, but can be changed using the deprecated @code{log trap} command) will be used. The @code{no} form of the command disables logging to a file. + +Note: if you do not configure any file logging, and a daemon crashes due +to a signal or an assertion failure, it will attempt to save the crash +information in a file named /var/tmp/quagga.<daemon name>.crashlog. +For security reasons, this will not happen if the file exists already, so +it is important to delete the file after reporting the crash information. @end deffn @deffn Command {log syslog} {} |