CentOS - May 2015 - [OT] eventlog-to-syslog

<rant>
So, we've got a couple of WinDoze servers, and we getting logs from them.
Except the logs seem to stop on occasion. My manager set me onto this (I
*loathe* WinDoze, but someone's gotta do it), and I finally found out that
a previous co-worker installed eventlog-to-syslog, which seems to be
hosted in google code. And it *seems* to have come from Purdue Univ.

So < found the readme, and wanted to cut down the verbosity. There's a
startup flag for this.
The log levels are:
  1: critical
  2: error
  3: warning
  4: info
  0: everything/verbosity

The start flag that you can give it is the "minimum" log level. And
no, I
did *not* write those levels out of order. Can *anyone* explain to me in
what number system 0 is *not* less than 3?....
</rant>

      mark

On Wed, May 6, 2015 3:26 pm, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> <rant>
> So, we've got a couple of WinDoze servers, and we getting logs from
them.
> Except the logs seem to stop on occasion. My manager set me onto this (I
> *loathe* WinDoze, but someone's gotta do it), and I finally found out
that
> a previous co-worker installed eventlog-to-syslog, which seems to be
> hosted in google code. And it *seems* to have come from Purdue Univ.
>
> So < found the readme, and wanted to cut down the verbosity. There's
a
> startup flag for this.
> The log levels are:
>   1: critical
>   2: error
>   3: warning
>   4: info
>   0: everything/verbosity
>
> The start flag that you can give it is the "minimum" log level.
And no, I
> did *not* write those levels out of order. Can *anyone* explain to me in
> what number system 0 is *not* less than 3?....
> </rant>
>
That's a good one, Mark! You made my day. Didn't you know that Windows
programmers the only ones who count 1,2,3,4,5,... [all normal programmers
count 0,1,2,3,4,5,... AFAIK]. I wonder how at all they got "0" in
their
levels ;-)

Valeri
>       mark

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Valeri Galtsev
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Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
University of Chicago
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> On May 6, 2015, at 15:17, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at
kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 
> That's a good one, Mark! You made my day. Didn't you know that
Windows
> programmers the only ones who count 1,2,3,4,5,... [all normal programmers
> count 0,1,2,3,4,5,... AFAIK]. I wonder how at all they got "0" in
their
> levels ;-)
Integer overflow ...