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

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Control: merge 767350 -1

Hi Olaf,

On 21.11.2014 00:59, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote:
> 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.

This is a duplicate of #767350, thus I'm merging the bugs.

> 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).

The fix I just pushed to git ensures that real-time progress indication 
only goes to ttys and only the last message to the journal/syslog.

Best regards,
Andreas