Logs

LemonLDAP::NG provides 5 levels of error and has two kind of logs:

• technical logs
• user actions logs

Each category can be handle by a different logging framework. You can choose between:

• Lemonldap::NG::Common::Logger::Std: standard output (mapped in web server logs, see below)
• Lemonldap::NG::Common::Logger::Syslog: syslog logging
• Lemonldap::NG::Common::Logger::Apache2: use Apache2 logging, levels are stored in Apache2 logs and the level is controlled by LogLevel Apache parameter
• Lemonldap::NG::Common::Logger::Log4perl: use Log4perl framework to log (inspired by Java Log4J)

Except for Apache2 and Log4Perl, log level is defined by logLevel parameter set in lemonldap-ng.ini file. Logger configurations are defined in lemonldap-ng.ini. Example:

[all]
logger     = Lemonldap::NG::Common::Logger::Log4perl
userLogger = Lemonldap::NG::Common::Logger::Syslog
logLevel   = notice

You can also modify these values in each lemonldap-ng.ini section to have different values for portal, manager and handlers.

LLNG provides also a username that can be used by webservers in their access log. To configure the user identifier in access log, go in Manager, General Parameters > Logging > REMOTE_USER.

• Apache handlers use by default Apache2 logger. This logger can't be used for other LLNG components
• Except when launched by LLNG FastCGI server (used by Nginx), Portal and Manager use Std logger by default
• All components lauched by LLNG FastCGI server use Syslog by default

• error is used for problems that must be reported to administrator and needs an action. In this case, some feature may not work
• warn is used for problems that doesn't block LLNG features but should be solved
• notice is used for actions that must be kept in logs
• info display some technical information
• debug produce a lot a debugging logs

• error is used to log bad user actions that looks malicious
• warn is used to log some errors like “bad password”
• notice is used for actions that must be kept in logs for accounting (connections, logout)
• info display some useful information like handler authorizations (at least 1 for each HTTP hit)
• debug isn't used

Nothing to configure except logLevel.

The log level can be set with Apache LogLevel parameter. It can be configured globally, or inside a virtual host.

See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#loglevel for more information.

You can choose facility in lemonldap-ng.ini file. Default values:

syslogFacility     = daemon
userSyslogFacility = auth

You can indicate the Log4perl configuration file and the classes to use. Default values:

log4perlConfFile   = /etc/log4perl.conf
log4perlLogger     = LLNG
log4perlUserLogger = LLNG.user