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diff --git a/doc/user/basic.rst b/doc/user/basic.rst index edcfce45ad..5b7786de18 100644 --- a/doc/user/basic.rst +++ b/doc/user/basic.rst @@ -86,6 +86,15 @@ Basic Config Commands debugging. Note that the existing code logs its most important messages with severity ``errors``. + .. warning:: + + FRRouting uses the ``writev()`` system call to write log messages. This + call is supposed to be atomic, but in reality this does not hold for + pipes or terminals, only regular files. This means that in rare cases, + concurrent log messages from distinct threads may get jumbled in + terminal output. Use a log file and ``tail -f`` if this rare chance is + inacceptable to your setup. + .. index:: single: no log file [FILENAME [LEVEL]] single: log file FILENAME [LEVEL] @@ -104,14 +113,6 @@ Basic Config Commands deprecated ``log trap`` command) will be used. The ``no`` form of the command disables logging to a file. - .. note:: - - If you do not configure any file logging, and a daemon crashes due to a - signal or an assertion failure, it will attempt to save the crash - information in a file named :file:`/var/tmp/frr.<daemon name>.crashlog`. - For security reasons, this will not happen if the file exists already, so - it is important to delete the file after reporting the crash information. - .. index:: single: no log syslog [LEVEL] single: log syslog [LEVEL] |