[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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