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Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 13:33:06 -0600
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Subject: Re: "Best practices" or recommendations for logging from a module?
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On 07/01/2012 12:55 PM, ohaya@cox.net wrote:
> ---- ohaya@cox.net wrote:
>    
>> ---- ohaya@cox.net wrote:
>>      
>>> ---- Joe Lewis<jlewis@silverhawk.net>  wrote:
>>>        
>>>> Jim, you could use the log_error funtion all the time. Log_perror javits
>>>> logging associated with a pool, and log_rerror is for requests. If
>>>> possible, use log_rerror, because it puts the up address, etc into the logs.
>>>>
>>>> Joe
>>>> On Jul 1, 2012 10:56 AM,<ohaya@cox.net>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>
>>> Joe,
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>        
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Oh, oh :(.
>>
>> I'm using:
>>
>> ap_log_error(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_DEBUG, 0, NULL,<my message>);
>>
>> all over the place, and even though I have only one LogLevel in the httpd;conf, at the top level, set to "debug", I don't see those messages.
>>
>> The only ones I see are the ones that use APLOG_NOTICE.
>>
>> Why is this?  I thought that with LogLevel set to debug, that I should see all level msgs output using ap_log_error?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jim
>>
>>      
>
> Hi,
>
> I think that I've found out why I'm not seeing those log messages.  Apparently, if the server parameter is NULL, only APLOG_NOTICE message appear except for during startup.
>
> So, I have use a server for that parameter, e.g. r->server, BUT, in some cases, e.g., in a function like the response callback for libcurl, where the signature is pre-defined, and where there is no request_rec or server_rec among the parameters, how can I get ap_log_error to output anything (other than APLOG_NOTICE) messages?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>    
Again, if you have access to a request_rec structure, I'd use 
ap_log_rerror.  Otherwise, use ap_log_perror.  Those have a better 
consistency with logging, e.g. :

ap_log_rerror(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_DEBUG, 0, requestrec, "uri = %s",r->uri);
ap_log_perror(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_DEBUG, 0, pool, "creating config");

Joe