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

[Georg L. <jor...@ma...>]

On 07/07/16 23:15, Kevin Zheng wrote:
> 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
>

Information from the sshguard package:

Package: sshguard
Version: 1.5-5
Installed-Size: 333
Maintainer: Julián Moreno Patiño <dar...@gm...>
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running sshguard -v:

shguard 1.5.0

Copyright (c) 2007,2008 Mij <mi...@ss...>
This is free software; see the source for conditions on copying.

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Best Regards,

   Georg Lehner