Quoting Michael Stapelberg (2013-12-13 21:00:04) > Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> writes: > > I just noticed that kanla is growing a huge logfile, seemingly > > consisting mostly of the following messages endlessly repeated: > > > > relaying: Hello, this is the "fail" plugin. If you read this message, > > your setup seems to be working :-). > > > > That's not acceptable for a daemon expected to be turned on always. > > > > At a minimum the daemon should use logrotate, but really such > > flooding with "ping" style messages should be avoided, to not shadow > > actually useful log messages. > Your bugreports reads a bit weird. The expectation here is: > > 1) If you install kanla, you will start configuring it. If you don’t > intend to use it, why install it? Or at least why have it enabled?
Debian daemons should be configured for normal working condition by default. I believe that's a "should" in Debian Policy. > 2) When first configuring kanla, it is helpful to have a quick way of > testing that messages successfully arrive at the destination address, > which this default setting provides. If one wants debugging output, onewould enable optional features for that, not expect it to be enabled by default. > 3) After removing the fail plugin from your configuration, you will only > see this message when an actual failure is detected. That should be > rarely, and in these cases it is more important to have a log message > in case something went wrong, than to have a quiet log file. Sounds like kanla then needs that feature disabled by default, then. > 4) When using systemd (and journald with that), you have logrotation by > default (well, in Debian that is no persistent logging at all, and a > memory ringbuffer currently). The legacy init support is > intentionally quite sparse, because it doesn’t make sense to spend > time on re-implementing the wheel in that area in 2013 (well, soon > 2014 :)). Last I checked, systemd wasn't default in Debian. Please include in the kanla package a logrotate snippet and recommend logrotate. Kind regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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