[Pkg-cyrus-sasl2-commits] r642 - in /cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian: changelog libsasl2-2.README.Debian

[roberto at users.alioth.debian.org]

Author: roberto
Date: Sat Apr 23 18:59:09 2011
New Revision: 642

URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-cyrus-sasl2/?sc=1&rev=642
Log:
libsasl2-2.README.Debian: document that SASL logs debug messages by
default, and how change/stop it (Closes: #590598)

Modified:
    cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/changelog
    cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/libsasl2-2.README.Debian

Modified: cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/changelog
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-cyrus-sasl2/cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/changelog?rev=642&op=diff
==============================================================================
--- cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/changelog (original)
+++ cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/changelog Sat Apr 23 18:59:09 2011
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 cyrus-sasl2 (2.1.23.dfsg1-9) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
 
-  * NOT RELEASED YET
-
- -- Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto at connexer.com>  Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:00:37 -0400
+  * libsasl2-2.README.Debian: document that SASL logs debug messages by
+    default, and how change/stop it (Closes: #590598)
+
+ -- Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto at connexer.com>  Sat, 23 Apr 2011 14:58:13 -0400
 
 cyrus-sasl2 (2.1.23.dfsg1-8) unstable; urgency=low
 

Modified: cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/libsasl2-2.README.Debian
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-cyrus-sasl2/cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/libsasl2-2.README.Debian?rev=642&op=diff
==============================================================================
--- cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/libsasl2-2.README.Debian (original)
+++ cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/libsasl2-2.README.Debian Sat Apr 23 18:59:09 2011
@@ -19,6 +19,21 @@
 not allow any users to log in, and other SASL apps will malfuntion in weird
 ways. If you do not intend to use SASL on your server, then the
 libsasl2-modules* packages are not necessary for you.
+
+SASL automatically logs debug information to syslog's auth.debug facility.
+This is not something that can be disabled through a configuration option to
+libsasl2-2 itself.  The default syslog configurations in Debian result in these
+messages going to /var/log/syslog and /var/log/auth.log.  If you wish to send
+the SASL debug messages elsewhere, you can add a line like this:
+
+    auth.debug /var/log/auth.debug
+
+To throw the messages away:
+
+    auth.debug /dev/null
+
+Additional information can be found here:
+http://www.cyrusimap.org/docs/cyrus-imapd/2.4.8/install-configure.php
 
 SASL uses /dev/urandom, which doesn't block when the system runs out of
 entropy. However, when the system does run out of entropy, the random numbers