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

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi,

On 25.11.2014 00:35, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Isn't this just a workaround for a systemd bug?  Why not fix it there?

That was my first intuition, but I have come around to a different 
opinion, mainly for two reasons:
  * It is desirable for the journal to keep the complete output in the
    log. Otherwise it might make debugging more difficult or even
    introduce security problems, if important messages can be removed
    from the journal.
  * The bug in clamav can be seen without systemd: Just redirect
    freshclam's output to a file and without this fix, you get the
    useless progress indication messages in your 'manual log'.

Thus fixing this in freshclam seems best.

Best regards,
Andreas