Package: rsyslog Version: 8.12.0-3 Severity: important File: /usr/sbin/rsyslogd
Dear Maintainer, the standard/shipped configuration of rsyslogd is logging so sensitive, that all kind of unnecessary messages are filling the files (e.g. messages and daemon) rapidly until my system is unusable anymore. As for now I identified at least two cases, like: * I am looking files on a NAS over SAMBA (billions of indexing messages). * I am watching a movie which is continously grumbling about some frames. I would like the standard configuration file to only log serious or critical messages, unless it is not in debug mode. Otherwise the log files are not only not usable for me (taking too much time to search them respective consuming too much learning time about how to cope whith huge text files, understanding the syntax of config files etc. for which unluckily I don't have the time) but also is dangerous for my system and therefore for my work, as I already lost a day of work (and therefore quite much money) due to this problem. I am really sorry if I sound grumpy - that's not my intention. I do appreciate your great work. Thanks Maria -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-486 Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages rsyslog depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.23 ii libc6 2.19-22 ii libestr0 0.1.10-1 ii libjson-c2 0.11-4 ii liblogging-stdlog0 1.0.5-2 ii liblognorm2 1.1.2-1 ii libsystemd0 227-2 ii libuuid1 2.27-3 ii lsb-base 9.20150917 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages rsyslog recommends: ii logrotate 3.8.7-2 Versions of packages rsyslog suggests: pn rsyslog-doc <none> pn rsyslog-gnutls <none> pn rsyslog-gssapi <none> pn rsyslog-mongodb <none> pn rsyslog-mysql | rsyslog-pgsql <none> pn rsyslog-relp <none>
