[Pkg-clamav-devel] Bug#770403: clamav-freshclam: Don't log progress indication to syslog

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Package: clamav-freshclam
Version: 0.98.5~rc1+dfsg-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Since upgrading from 0.98.4+dfsg-2+b1 to 0.98.5~rc1+dfsg-2 on
2014-10-30, freshclam has been sending progress indication messages to
syslog.  The last time I made any changes below /etc/clamav was on
2014-06-10.

For a download of daily.cvd that results in many, many long lines like
this one (truncated! for brevity):

  Nov 21 03:53:18 localhost freshclam[16839]: Downloading daily.cvd [  0%]#015Downloading daily.cvd [  0%]#015Downloading daily.cvd [  0%]#015Downloading daily.cvd [  0%]#015Downloading daily.cvd [  0%]#015Downloading daily.cvd [  0%]#015Downloading daily.cvd [  0%]#015Downloading daily.cvd [  0%]

While a single message for the download may be syslog material, I don't
think that real-time progress indication is something that should be
logged.  That kind of information is only useful when running the
program interactively.

Please disable progress logging by default (for non-interactive use).

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages clamav-freshclam depends on:
ii  clamav-base            0.98.5~rc1+dfsg-3
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.53
ii  dpkg                   1.17.21
ii  init-system-helpers    1.21
ii  libc6                  2.19-13
ii  libclamav6             0.98.5~rc1+dfsg-3
ii  libssl1.0.0            1.0.1j-1
ii  logrotate              3.8.7-1+b1
ii  lsb-base               4.1+Debian13+nmu1
ii  procps                 2:3.3.9-8
ii  ucf                    3.0030
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2

clamav-freshclam recommends no packages.

Versions of packages clamav-freshclam suggests:
pn  apparmor     <none>
pn  clamav-docs  <none>

-- debconf information:
  clamav-freshclam/Bytecode: true
* clamav-freshclam/update_interval: 24
* clamav-freshclam/PrivateMirror:
  clamav-freshclam/SafeBrowsing: false
* clamav-freshclam/proxy_user:
* clamav-freshclam/autoupdate_freshclam: daemon
  clamav-freshclam/LogRotate: true
* clamav-freshclam/http_proxy: http://127.0.0.1:3128/
* clamav-freshclam/local_mirror: db.local.clamav.net
  clamav-freshclam/internet_interface:
* clamav-freshclam/NotifyClamd: true

-- 
Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2           FLOSS Engineer -- AVASYS CORPORATION
FSF Associate Member #1962               Help support software freedom
                 http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=1962