X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?a=blobdiff_plain;f=website%2Fbugs%2Fuseful_information.mdwn;h=025d678333813f9acbf5cbe5bb15ecbab8e5586c;hb=339dd73b29eabfba4fcfe92b425678e5bed912c8;hp=075035413585a82c9c103a33314764581afbef63;hpb=a96625fb216143164f12191526939f4c0afcd5a9;p=monkeysphere.git diff --git a/website/bugs/useful_information.mdwn b/website/bugs/useful_information.mdwn index 0750354..025d678 100644 --- a/website/bugs/useful_information.mdwn +++ b/website/bugs/useful_information.mdwn @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ I would like to know, at INFO (default) log level, when the -monkeyspehere makes a "real" modification to my known_hosts file; that +monkeyspehere makes a "real" modification to my known\_hosts file; that is, when it adds or deletes a key. Apparently this is hard because monkeysphere is currently configured to @@ -8,3 +8,43 @@ time seems to the monkeysphere very similar to a key re-added ten seconds after last login. Still, from a UI perspective, I want to know what monkeysphere is doing. + +------ + +It looks like jrollins committed a change for reporting at INFO level +when a host key gets added by the monkeysphere: +2459fa3ea277d7b9289945748619eab1e3441e5c + +When i connect to a host whose key is not already present in my +known_hosts file, i get the following to stderr: + + ms: * new key for squeak.fifthhorseman.net added to known_hosts file. + +This doesn't fully close this bug, because we aren't notifying on key +deletion, afaict. + +------ + +So current log level DEBUG will output a message if the known host +file has been modified. If the issue is that you want to know at the +default log level everytime the known\_hots file is modified, then we +should just move this message to INFO instead of debug, and then maybe +remove the message that I added above. I was under the impression +that the issue was more about notification that a *new* key was added +to the known\_hosts file, and therefore the new INFO message above +fixed that problem. Should we do this instead? + +In general, more verbose log levels *do* tell the user what the +monkeysphere is doing. Moving to DEBUG log level will tell you pretty +much everything that happens. I do *not* think that this should be +the default log level, though. + +------ + +I wouldn't want to see an extremely verbose default log level. But i +do think that saying something like "key blah blah blah was stripped +from your known\_hosts file because it was expired" (for example) +would be useful. I think this case would occur infrequently enough +that it is worth reporting in the UI at the regular log level. + + --dkg