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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2024-05-20 22:06:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2024-06-02 20:52:24 +0200 |
| commit | 8f0878da8d139b5890206f3d2b867bee36015dd8 (patch) | |
| tree | fe2c70796cea39aec968943238d70bfc19dab7e1 /doc | |
| parent | bc06affabcf68bbe93e9afee13bef8cc8c6336a2 (diff) | |
services: nscd: ‘log-file’ defaults to #f.
* gnu/services/base.scm (<nscd-configuration>)[log-file]: Default to #f.
* doc/guix.texi (Base Services): Clarify documentation.
Change-Id: Ia75914fc2665db13bef688d53659083a615ebef4
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 1224104038..8cc01b2e65 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -19458,9 +19458,11 @@ the nscd---e.g., @code{(list @var{nss-mdns})}. Package object denoting the GNU C Library providing the @command{nscd} command. -@item @code{log-file} (default: @code{"/var/log/nscd.log"}) -Name of the nscd log file. This is where debugging output goes when -@code{debug-level} is strictly positive. +@item @code{log-file} (default: @code{#f}) +Name of the nscd log file. Debugging output goes to that file when +@code{debug-level} is strictly positive, or to standard error if it is +@code{#f}. Regular messages are written to syslog when +@code{debug-level} is zero, regardless of the value of @code{log-file}. @item @code{debug-level} (default: @code{0}) Integer denoting the debugging levels. Higher numbers mean that more |