Re: initial observations of sfs 0.7.2 (on NetBSD)

On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 07:21:14PM -0500, David Mazieres wrote:
> >     *       sfsagent is way too verbose, and has the annoying habit of
> >     spamming the tty that you ran "sfskey login" on with various
> >     diagnostic messages.
> 
> This is true.  Any suggestions on where to put the stuff?  The system
> log doesn't seem right.  I am thinking maybe to put it in a file in
> the user's home directory, though there's the slight annoyance that
> your home directory might not yet be accessible at the time you run
> sfsagent.

There's also the issue that there may be a quota on users' home
directories, so if the log were to continually grow (and the user didn't
know to delete it from time to time), it could cause problems.

Perhaps you could create a /var/log/sfs/agent.log or something? Or if you
were to invest effort and try to be fancy, you might be able to create set
of log files /var/log/sfs/agent/username which are only readable by that
user... I have no idea how to do this, or how hard it would be to do so,
but since I imagine for security reasons you wouldn't want other users to
be able to read one user's sfsagent log (but that user might need to, in
order to debug problems?), this might be the best solution (at least that I
can think of...).
-- 
David Roundy
http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/