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

[Olaf Meeuwissen]

Andreas Cadhalpun writes:

> 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.

Must have missed that.  I did check for similar bug reports.

>> 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.

Thanks and sorry for the noise.
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