01-02-2013
Writing to System Logs
This isn't a RedHat specific question. The software in question might be used for any Linux distribution. Would it be advisable or inadvisable for my application, to be downloaded by many people I don't know, to write to the following logs in /var/log?
maillog or mail.log
messages
secure
Is there a reason not to do this, and if I do write to these logs, is ordinary file I/O good enough?
Thanks.
Brandon
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NAME
getbuildlog - download build logs from Debian auto-builders
SYNOPSIS
getbuildlog package [version-pattern] [architecture-pattern]
DESCRIPTION
getbuildlog downloads build logs of package from Debian auto-builders. It downloads build logs of all versions and for all architectures if
version-pattern and architecture-pattern are not specified or empty, otherwise only build logs whose versions match version-pattern and
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OPTIONS
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EXAMPLES
getbuildlog hello 2.2-1 amd64
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getbuildlog wesnoth .*bpo.*
Download all build logs of backported wesnoth versions.
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