[Oval-devel] Fwd: [ ovaldi-Feature Requests-3044510 ] Introduce the option to log to file or not.

[Pavel Vinogradov]

  Forward patch nologtofile to upstream.
Submit feature request for ovaldi at SF.net

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Feature Requests item #3044510, was opened at 2010-08-13 23:21
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Category: Logging
Group: Version 5.8
Status: Open
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Pavel Vinogradov (pavelvinogradov)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Introduce the option to log to file or not.

Initial Comment:
 Standard ovaldi always creates a log file 'ovaldi.log' and  writes to
it its messages. Always writting to a log file is not considered good
behaviour since it fills the filesystem with crufts and can, even, be
a  security issue if the logfile name is static (as is the case here)
and the
 user is running in a place any other users can write to (as this
makes him  vulnerable to logfile attacks)

 This patch modifies the Log filesytem so that logfile writting is
disabled by default and only enabled if the user explicitly requests
logs either by setting the 'debug' flag or by explicitly defining a
log file.

Attach patch from ovaldi Debian package, author: Javier
Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs _at_ debian.org>

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