Logging

[Luis Ressel]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 08:37:17AM +0100, J.R. Oldroyd wrote:
> Since adding syslog support is so trivial, given the existing code
> is already designed around logging levels and given Go's clean support
> of syslog, why not just build it in so that wireguard's logging is done
> consistently with all other UNIX daemons?  Piping stdout to logger
> is non-standard and also loses the ability to filter the different
> log levels to different log destinations.

If you're adding logging support, I'd prefer logs on stderr over a
centralized legacy mechanism such as syslog. That's much more flexible;
in particular, it makes it much easier to direct logs of different
daemons to different places, or run daemons in chroots.

Cheers,
Luis