Re: [PATCH 3/5] gnu: Add tlp service.

[Mathieu Othacehe]

> I have not been able to see anything related to tlp in
> /var/log/messages.  And if I set trace mode (TLP_DEBUG, in /etc/tlp), I
> have an error message: "logger: unknown facility name: debug", which I
> think could be patched in tlp source, maybe by removing "-p debug".  Or
> maybe it is logger that needs to be patched, I don't know.
>
> Otherwise syslogd would not be needed here.  WDYT?

Well when you call logger -p debug, it means with facility = debug and
priority = default one = notice. syslog does only support predefined
facilities like auth, cron, kern ...
The complete list can be found here (section 19.1):

https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/manual/html_node/syslogd-invocation.html

The facility debug does not exist and cannot be created.
So logger -p debug makes no sense to me.

However, debug is a priority, so logger -p user.debug or daemon.debug
would be correct.

I could patch those logger calls in guix tlp package but I prefer to
contact tlp maintainer to see if he can fix it upstream.

>
> BTW, could you consider adding TLP_DEBUG to the service?

It is not needed for now as it enables a broken feature !

I will remove syslogd requirement from this service for now.

Thanks for testing this out !

Mathieu