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

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 31/10/05, Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...> wrote:
>
> 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.

<Shrugs> I run fetchmail in silent mode to avoid these messages, so
I'd be in favour of moving the messages to verbose.

However, it doesn't exactly bother me to leave it running in silent mode.

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