reassign 803499 gnome-settings-daemon 3.14.2-3 thanks 2015-10-30 20:43 GMT+01:00 Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org>: > Am 30.10.2015 um 19:23 schrieb Jens Seidel: >> 2015-10-30 18:59 GMT+01:00 Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org>: >>> So rsyslog logs your (user) messages. >>> I fail to see how this is a bug in rsyslog, even more a grave one? >> >> I'm sorry, I do not know what program to blame. What do you suggest? > > Since I have no idea what this bug report is supposed to be about, I > have no idea either.
I consider filling the harddisk with GB of useless data as a bug, you don't? It should not happen to other users (or me again) so thanks for not closing it. I chose the same severity as in another similar bug I found (#788183). Let's reassign it to gnome-settings-daemon (or dconf???) which is the creator of the messages Oct 13 13:04:33 numa03 gnome-session[9819]: (gnome-settings-daemon:9861): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create directory '/run/user/0/dconf': No permission. dconf will not work properly. > How exactly is it a problem of rsyslog if it writes messages which have > been sent via syslog()? OK, I got your point. >> Isn't it rsyslog task to write the messages? > > If someone sends a message via the syslog protocol, rsyslog typically > writes that message to disk, yes. > >> Duplicated messages >> should be dropped (and I have seen this in the past in logs: "Message >> occurred too opften, dropping it" or similar). > > Repeated message reduction has it's own share of problems, so this was > disabled in rsyslog a long time ago. I think this has been the default > since at least wheezy. You can turn that on via > $RepeatedMsgReduction on > if you want. That doesn't really help you though against malicious > attackers. They can just as well log a random string to fill you your > hard disk? Thanks for this information. > If you don't want your hard disk run full because of syslog, the only > real way to do that with (r)syslog is to use a separate partition for > /var/log Then this should be considered to be used by default in Debian installer? Jens
