martin f krafft <madd...@debian.org> writes: > also sprach Dmitry Semyonov <linu...@gmail.com> [2009.02.23.1050 +0100]:
>> As I understand, the rationale for not fixing the bug is "we don't have >> the time to add and update rules for everything". But since Lenny >> release, rsyslog no longer falls into the "everything" category. It is >> now the default system logger, recommended to be used on every Debian >> machine which does not have any specific syslog requirements not met by >> rsyslog. So, you can imagine how much time will be wasted by Debian >> users on the whole to manually disable these daily notifications just >> because you don't want to make an exception for "the policy". (On the >> other hand, I understand that it's too late already.) > Why does rsyslog generate a log message every day? Probably for the same reason that syslogd reports a log message every day, which logcheck is already filtering. :) windlord:/root# cat /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.paranoid/sysklogd ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ syslogd [.0-9#]+: restart\.$ (I certainly agree with encouraging people to join the team and help out by adding rules.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org