[fetchmail-devel] Poll: log level for "sleeping at ..."/"awakened at ..."

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

Greetings,

The Debian BTS has a bug open that is titled
"fetchmail: shouldn't print sleeping at <date> while logging into syslog"
See <http://bugs.debian.org/282259>

The question is:

At what verbosity should we log "sleeping at <date>"/"awakened at
<date>" to the screen? Currently, it's logged whenever "--silent" isn't
used. The debian patch changes this to "-v" level. Printing this in
non-silent/non-verbose mode hints to the user that fetchmail isn't
hanging and regularly checking for mail, but I'd personally not mind
using -v.

At what verbosity should we log these two messages to syslog? While
there are valid reasons not to log these, the option is a keepalive
timestamp in the log, to see when fetchmail was running and when it
stopped, so I'm inclined to leave the syslog as it is now.

Opinions welcome.

Regards,

-- 
Matthias Andree