Package: syslog-ng-core Version: 4.8.1-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
With the default configuration, syslog-ng writes a very long line of stats every second to two log files. This builds up to rather large log files of the order of 700MB over a week. Jul 20 07:45:06 <hostname> syslog-ng[2065]: Log statistics; processed='destination(d_mail)=0', processed='destination(d_cron)=606', processed='destination(d_error)=7930', processed='destination(d_uucp)=0', processed='global(payload_reallocs)=808524', processed='center(received)=412347', dropped='global(internal_source)=0', processed='global(internal_source)=396261', queued='global(internal_source)=0', processed='destination(d_daemon)=9280', processed='destination(d_messages)=396436', processed='destination(d_newserr)=0', processed='destination(d_debug)=3718', processed='destination(d_newscrit)=0', processed='center(queued)=842093', processed='destination(d_console)=6', processed='destination(d_kern)=125', processed='destination(d_user)=57', queued='global(scratch_buffers_bytes)=0', processed='source(s_src)=412347', processed='destination(d_syslog)=406329', processed='global(msg_clones)=0', processed='global(sdata_updates)=0', processed='destination(d_lpr)=0', stamp='src.internal(s_src#2)=1752993905', processed='destination(d_console_all)=7944', processed='destination(d_xconsole)=7944', processed='src.internal(s_src#2)=396261', processed='destination(d_newsnotice)=0', processed='destination(d_auth)=1718', queued='global(scratch_buffers_count)=2' I don't think this is an appropriate default! I suggest turning this off with stats(freq(0)); Thanks, Andrew -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.12.37+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages syslog-ng-core depends on: ii libc6 2.41-11 ii libcap2 1:2.75-10+b1 ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.84.3-1 ii libivykis0t64 0.43.2-1+b1 ii libjson-c5 0.18+ds-1 ii libnet1 1.3+dfsg-2 ii libpcre2-8-0 10.45-1 ii libssl3t64 3.5.1-1 ii libsystemd0 257.7-1 ii libwrap0 7.6.q-36 ii sysvinit-utils [lsb-base] 3.14-4 Versions of packages syslog-ng-core recommends: ii logrotate 3.22.0-1 Versions of packages syslog-ng-core suggests: pn syslog-ng-mod-add-contextual-data <none> pn syslog-ng-mod-amqp <none> pn syslog-ng-mod-examples <none> pn syslog-ng-mod-geoip2 <none> pn syslog-ng-mod-graphite <none> pn syslog-ng-mod-http <none> pn syslog-ng-mod-mongodb <none> pn syslog-ng-mod-python <none> pn syslog-ng-mod-rdkafka <none> pn syslog-ng-mod-redis <none> pn syslog-ng-mod-riemann <none> pn syslog-ng-mod-slog <none> pn syslog-ng-mod-snmp <none> pn syslog-ng-mod-sql <none> pn syslog-ng-mod-stardate <none> pn syslog-ng-mod-stomp <none> pn syslog-ng-mod-xml-parser <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/init.d/syslog-ng changed: (includes https://github.com/gcsideal/syslog-ng-debian/pull/14 fix) /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf as installed: @version: 4.4 @include "scl.conf" options { chain_hostnames(off); flush_lines(0); use_dns(no); use_fqdn(no); dns_cache(no); owner("root"); group("adm"); perm(0640); stats(freq(1)); bad_hostname("^gconfd$"); };
