SP logging when in foreground versions 3.0.3 and 3.0.4

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/23/19, 2:26 PM, "dev on behalf of Scott Koranda" <dev-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of skoranda at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it expected that for some configuration shibd will start with
> shibd.logger but then switch to using console.logger beccause it is
> running in the foreground? 

No, but there are dozens of variations across versions with how it defaults things dating back to 2.0. There's just nothing that recent changed.

> I am trying to understand what configuration (or lack thereof) might
> cause that behavior.

The logger attributes in the configuration tell it what to do but there are combinations that do unexpected things since all the defaulting was added to reduce the size of the file in 2.4 and it's all over the place since then. I'm sure I changed some of it in 3.0, but I don't think anything since then.

It's nothing to do with foreground vs. background generally. Only the command line utilities explicitly relied on the console logging by design.

-- Scott