By hgmichna on

After upgrading to Drupal 6 I now gained a new database logging module. That's all very nice, and I quickly enabled it.

But I don't see the log anywhere. All the logs, now called reports, look just like they did in Drupal 5 without any database logging. Who's playing jokes here?

Seriously, I think a little documentation and a hint in the help texts would be a good idea.

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

styro’s picture

styro commented

is the old Drupal 5 logging functionality. ie it is logging to your database just like Drupal always did.

What is new in Drupal 6 is that logging is pluggable and you don't have to use database logging if you don't want to. eg you can save load on your DB by switching off database logging (which can be a bottleneck), and turning on logging to syslog (or some other contrib logging module) instead.

--
Anton

styro’s picture

styro commented

Drupal 6 annoucement mentions you can now use either DB or OS logging
http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0

The logging section of the features page
http://drupal.org/features
sends you to the watchdog module docs...
(maybe that needs some updating)

The watchdog module (ie part of 5 and earlier) docs mentions the changes in Drupal 6:
http://drupal.org/node/300
and how it has been replaced by the dblog and syslog modules...

Docs for dblog module:
http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/dblog

Docs for syslog module:
http://drupal.org/handbook/modules/syslog

--
Anton