Re: [SSHGuard-users] Inconvenient logging with SSHGUARD_DEBUG=yes

[Kevin Z. <kev...@gm...>]

On 07/07/2016 15:09, Georg Lehner wrote:
> When testing the recent sshguard with debugging on it started to 
> feedback itself into an endless loop, by writing messages to the syslog 
> with facility auth.debug.
> 
>    auth.debug: Jul  7 23:43:26 sshguard[5840]: Read line from 
> '/var/log/socklog/main/current'.
> 
> This did not happen with the precompiled sshguard (Debian Squeeze). 
> Maybe debug logging should go to another facility, e.g. daemon, user or 
> local0.

What version is the packaged SSHGuard? I wonder which change caused this
issue to surface?

I never caught this issue because my system syslog facility has a rule
that sends all debug output to a separate file.

A fix was committed in b89b706. Thanks for the report!

Best,
Kevin

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