[Mailman-Developers] syslog(debug) disable logging in production?

[Mark Sapiro]

On 05/15/2014 08:50 AM, Sylvain Viart wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think that syslog() call don't pass through system syslog.
> I use Mailman/Logging/Syslog.py
> 
> from Mailman.Logging.Syslog import syslog
> 
> Is there a way to keep the code without disabling it?
> In the mailman/Mailman folder (2.1.15) debug tagged syslog calls are
> commented.
> 
> Of course I can write some code:
> 
> DEBUG = False
> 
> def debug(msg, *args, **kws):
>     if DEBUG == 1:
>         syslog.write_ex('debug', msg, args, kws)
> 
> def process(mlist, msg, msgdata=None):
>     global DEBUG
>     if hasattr(mlist, 'debug'):
>         DEBUG = mlist.debug
> […]
> 
> enabling with: config_list -i <(echo mlist.debug=1) listname
> 
> I did, in fact… :-)
> 
> Did I miss some nice feature?


No, but you could just leave your syslog('debug', ...) calls intact and do

ln -s /dev/null /path/to/mailman/logs/debug

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