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

Scott Kitterman debian at kitterman.com
Wed Nov 26 22:08:21 UTC 2014


On Wednesday, November 26, 2014 11:04:27 PM Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> 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.

OK.  Makes sense.  As with the other things, you've sent this upstream, right?

Scott K



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