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sasl (7erl)

Name

sasl - The SASL application

Synopsis

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Description

Erlang Application Definition                                          sasl(7)



NAME
       sasl - The SASL application

DESCRIPTION
       The SASL application provides the following services:

         * alarm_handler

         * release_handler

         * systools

   Note:
       The  SASL application in OTP has nothing to do with "Simple Authentica-
       tion and Security Layer" (RFC 4422).


CONFIGURATION
       The following configuration parameters are defined for the SASL  appli-
       cation. For more information about configuration parameters, see app(4)
       in Kernel.

       All configuration parameters are optional.

         start_prg = string() :
           Specifies the program to be used when restarting the system  during
           release installation. Default is $OTP_ROOT/bin/start.

         masters = [atom()] :
           Specifies  the nodes used by this node to read/write release infor-
           mation. This parameter is ignored if parameter client_directory  is
           not set.

         client_directory = string() :
           This  parameter specifies the client directory at the master nodes.
           For details, see Release Handling in OTP  Design  Principles.  This
           parameter is ignored if parameter masters is not set.

         static_emulator = true | false :
           Indicates  if  the  Erlang emulator is statically installed. A node
           with a static emulator cannot switch dynamically to a new emulator,
           as  the  executable  files are written into memory statically. This
           parameter is ignored if parameters masters and client_directory are
           not set.

         releases_dir = string() :
           Indicates where the releases directory is located. The release han-
           dler writes all its files to this directory. If this  parameter  is
           not  set,  the OS environment parameter RELDIR is used. By default,
           this is $OTP_ROOT/releases.

DEPRECATED ERROR LOGGER EVENT HANDLERS AND CONFIGURATION
       In Erlang/OTP 21.0, a new API for logging was added. The old error_log-
       ger  event  manager,  and event handlers running on this manager, still
       work, but they are not used by default.

       The    error    logger    event    handlers    sasl_report_tty_h    and
       sasl_report_file_h,  were  earlier used for printing the so called SASL
       reports, i.e. supervisor reports, crash reports, and progress  reports.
       These  reports  are  now  also  printed  by  the default logger handler
       started by the Kernel application.  Progress  reports  are  by  default
       stopped  by  the  primary log level, but can be enabled by setting this
       level to info, for example by using the Kernel configuration  parameter
       logger_level.

       If  the old error logger event handlers are still desired, they must be
       added by calling error_logger:add_report_handler/1,2.

         sasl_report_tty_h:
           Formats and writes supervisor reports, crash reports, and  progress
           reports  to  stdio. This error logger event handler uses error_log-
           ger_format_depth in the Kernel application to limit how much detail
           is printed in crash and supervisor reports.

         sasl_report_file_h:
           Formats  and  writes supervisor reports, crash report, and progress
           report to a single file.  This  error  logger  event  handler  uses
           error_logger_format_depth  in  the  Kernel application to limit the
           details printed in crash and supervisor reports.

       A similar behaviour, but  still  using  the  new  logger  API,  can  be
       obtained  by  setting  the Kernel application environment variable log-
       ger_sasl_compatible to true. This adds a second instance of  the  stan-
       dard Logger handler, named sasl, which only prints the SASL reports. No
       SASL reports are then printed by the Kernel logger handler.

       The sasl handler is configured according to the values of the following
       SASL application environment variables.

         sasl_error_logger = Value :
           Value is one of the following:

           tty:
             Installs  sasl_report_tty_h  in  the  error  logger.  This is the
             default option.

           {file,FileName}:
             Installs sasl_report_file_h in the error logger. All  reports  go
             to  file FileName, which is a string. The file is opened in write
             mode with encoding utf8.

           {file,FileName,Modes}:
             Same as {file,FileName}, except that Modes allows you to  specify
             the  modes used for opening the FileName given to the file:open/2
             call. By default, the file is opened in write mode with  encoding
             utf8.  Use  [append]  to have the FileName open in append mode. A
             different encoding can also be specified. FileName is a string.

           false:
             No SASL error logger handler is installed.

         errlog_type = error | progress | all :
           Restricts  the   error   logging   performed   by   the   specified
           sasl_error_logger  to  error  reports or progress reports, or both.
           Default is all.

         utc_log = true | false :
           If set to true, all dates in textual log outputs are  displayed  in
           Universal Coordinated Time with the string UTC appended.

       The  error  logger  event handler log_mf_h can also still be used. This
       event handler writes all events sent to the error logger to disk.  Mul-
       tiple  files  and  log  rotation are used. For efficiency reasons, each
       event is written as a binary. For more information about this  handler,
       see the STDLIB Reference Manual.

       To  activate  this  event  handler, three SASL configuration parameters
       must be set:

         error_logger_mf_dir = string() | false :
           Specifies in which directory log_mf_h is to  store  its  files.  If
           this  parameter  is undefined or false, the log_mf_h handler is not
           installed.

         error_logger_mf_maxbytes = integer() :
           Specifies the maximum size  of  each  individual  file  written  by
           log_mf_h.  If  this parameter is undefined, the log_mf_h handler is
           not installed.

         error_logger_mf_maxfiles = 0<integer()<256 :
           Specifies the number of files used by log_mf_h. If  this  parameter
           is undefined, the log_mf_h handler is not installed.

       The  new  logger_disk_log_h  might be an alternative to log_mf_h if log
       rotation is desired. This does, however, write the log events in  clear
       text and not as binaries.

SEE ALSO
       alarm_handler(3),   error_logger(3),   logger(3),  log_mf_h(3),  rb(3),
       release_handler(3), systools(3)



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