Debian Bug report logs - #781324
dpkg: Please add support for logging to syslog

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Petr Šťastný <petr@stastny.eu>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Feature request: dpkg logging to syslog

Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:46:08 +0100

Package: dpkg

At the moment, dpkg writes its actitivity to file /var/log/dpkg.log
(path can be changed with --log option), which seems to be the only option.

"man dpkg" does not say anything about syslog logging option.

Is it possible to add a feature to be able to send events to syslog
(rsyslog) process instead writing to file?

Message #10 received at 781324@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

To: Petr Šťastný <petr@stastny.eu>, 781324@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#781324: Feature request: dpkg logging to syslog

Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 17:54:55 +0100

Control: severity -1 wishlist

Hi!

On Fri, 2015-03-27 at 15:46:08 +0100, Petr Šťastný wrote:
> Package: dpkg

> At the moment, dpkg writes its actitivity to file /var/log/dpkg.log
> (path can be changed with --log option), which seems to be the only option.
> 
> "man dpkg" does not say anything about syslog logging option.
> 
> Is it possible to add a feature to be able to send events to syslog
> (rsyslog) process instead writing to file?

Yes, I guess I could add that, should not be much work.

Thanks,
Guillem

Message #19 received at 781324@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Herold <quabla@hemio.de>

To: 781324@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#781324: Feature request: dpkg logging to syslog

Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 22:20:33 +0200

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Would be really nice to have this in stretch.

Not sure if there is a safe way to leave the syslog open. The following
patch works for me (--log syslog).

[syslog.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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