Re: [fetchmail-users] Rotating the log file

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

"Rob MacGregor" <rob...@gm...> writes:

>> fetchmail: sleeping at Mon 10 Jul 2006 20:25:26 BST
>> fetchmail: awakened at Mon 10 Jul 2006 20:28:26 BST
>
> However, if you run syslog-ng you could easily weed out the messages
> you don't want.  I've done that on a number of systems, using the
> pattern matching to avoid logging pointless stuff.  Probably easier
> than patching fetchmail, and arguing over what messages should go at
> what verbosity level :)

There's a bug report/patching "war" in the Debian system going on for
many a month... Some users want these sleeping/awakened messages logged,
others don't, so whenever one fix is made to close a bug report, the
other group files a bug report... Looks like a switch is needed for
these particular messages in the long run.

Since I tend to think that uninteresting messages can be filtered out
easily with egrep -v or syslog-ng or whatever and checking new mail
every 3 minutes abusive (if you need real-time delivery, either use IMAP
with IDLE or SMTP or UUCP over TCP/IP, I'll say we keep these for the
nonce.

These particular messages for the 6.3.X series will stay in so that
6.3.X releases are compatible with each other.

-- 
Matthias Andree