[PATCH] Add 'log' argument to 'console' stanza allowing job output to be captured.

[Jacek Konieczny]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 05:36:49PM +0100, James Hunt wrote:
> This patch adds a 'log' argument to the 'console' stanza which allows all job output to be captured
> and persisted to disk.

Are there any limits on the log sizes? Any log rotation procedure? A way
to forward the stream to syslog?

> Note that this patch makes "console log" the new default (the old default being "console none"). The
> rationale for this change being that if your jobs do produce output, you generally want to see it
> (more than likely it will contain details of errors). If you do not want this behaviour, you will
> need to modify your job configuration files to specify explicitly "console none". This is a change
> in behaviour. This feature is available to user jobs as well [*].

In case a job produces some insane amount of output (which could be
unnoticed with older Upstart) won't this fill up the disk, possibly
causing deny of service?

Greets,
        Jacek