Bug#1125461: luanti-server: Syslog is flooded with in-game actions

[Tobias Frost]

Control: tags -1 patch

Hi Travis,

suggestion: Dropping the server.log and only log to journald?
What do you think?

(Users can still drop in an systemd override if they want a real log
file)

MR: https://salsa.debian.org/games-team/luanti/-/merge_requests/14

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tobi

On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:01:58 +0100 Christian Weiske
<cweiske at cweiske.de> wrote:
> Package: luanti-server
> Version: 5.10.0+dfsg-5
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> When watching the luanti server logs with
> > journalctl -efu luanti-server
> I see in-game actions like
> > ACTION[Server]: username moves stuff to chest at (153,9,173)
> 
> These lines appear thousand times per minute and clog the
> server logs.
> 
> It is possible to put
> > debug_log_level = warning
> into /etc/luanti/default.conf, but that only affects the lines
> logged into /var/log/luanti/default/server.log
> - but the actions are still logged into syslog.