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| -rw-r--r-- | website/bugs/useful_information.mdwn | 18 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/website/bugs/useful_information.mdwn b/website/bugs/useful_information.mdwn index 62094bb..dd0077a 100644 --- a/website/bugs/useful_information.mdwn +++ b/website/bugs/useful_information.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ I would like to know, at INFO (default) log level, when the -monkeyspehere makes a "real" modification to my known_hosts file; that +monkeyspehere makes a "real" modification to my known\_hosts file; that is, when it adds or deletes a key. Apparently this is hard because monkeysphere is currently configured to @@ -22,3 +22,19 @@ known_hosts file, i get the following to stderr: This doesn't fully close this bug, because we aren't notifying on key deletion, afaict. + +------ + +So current log level DEBUG will output a message if the known host +file has been modified. If the issue is that you want to know at the +default log level everytime the known\_hots file is modified, then we +should just move this message to INFO instead of debug, and then maybe +remove the message that I added above. I was under the impression +that the issue was more about notification that a *new* key was added +to the known\_hosts file, and therefore the new INFO message above +fixed that problem. Should we do this instead? + +In general, more verbose log levels *do* tell the user what the +monkeysphere is doing. Moving to DEBUG log level will tell you pretty +much everything that happens. I do *not* think that this should be +the default log level, though. |