Bug 1232011 - [rfe] log all actions to journal / syslog by default
Summary: [rfe] log all actions to journal / syslog by default
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1278865
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: rpm-software-management
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-06-15 20:19 UTC by Gerd v. Egidy
Modified: 2016-07-27 09:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-07-27 09:20:39 UTC
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Description Gerd v. Egidy 2015-06-15 20:19:12 UTC
Description of problem:

good old yum logged all package actions (install, update, ...) and respective package versions to syslog by default. Regardless if the action was done through commandline, yum-cron or whatever.

Like this:
yum[3218]: Updated: device-mapper.x86_64 1.02.90-2.el6_6.2
yum[27167]: Installed: tmux-1.6-3.el6.x86_64

This is very helpful if you are debugging a problem, you are able to pinpoint when it started and see in the log that some packages where installed or updated shortly before.

So please add that to dnf too and enable it by default.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

dnf-1.0.1-2.fc22

How reproducible: always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf install foo
2. journalctl -t dnf --since -1m | grep -i install

Actual results:
empty

Expected results:
dnf[pid]: Installed: foo-1.2.3

Comment 1 Honza Silhan 2015-06-16 13:35:03 UTC
Dnf logs actions into /var/log/dnf.log but I must admit that filtering in journalctl is more convenient.

Comment 2 Gerd v. Egidy 2015-06-22 21:52:06 UTC
dnf.log is very chatty, even with the default "debuglevel = 1" from automatic.conf. I don't think all this information is needed unless you are debugging some dnf problem.

What I'm after is the stuff that is supposed to go in dnf.rpm.log. I think that should go to the journal / syslog by default instead.

I think there are several reasons why I think this is a good idea:

- one log file contains the package installs/upgrades and the (error) messages of the packages updated. So the reason for the messages (= the update) is obvious to the reader of the log and you don't have to think about "oh maybe there was an update, let's look into dnf.rpm.log". Especially important if you don't have seasoned admins but newbies.

- Automatically integrates into remote logging systems if you have them set up for your regular journald / syslog.

- Automatically integrates into log monitoring and alert systems if you have them set up for your regular journald / syslog.

Comment 3 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2016-07-08 09:29:58 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 4 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 20:48:11 UTC
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 5 Igor Gnatenko 2016-07-27 09:20:39 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1278865 ***


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