hello guys, usually when confronted to debug messages, we decline because of the huge amount of work they represent. also our ruleset is quite impressive yet, and needs some processing. at our local debian meeting some admin showed me his logcheck rules, some of which i'll incorporate next hours. concerning ppp he said that he needed to run the pppd daemon in debug modus for easier reaction when user phones him telling him that the connection doesn't work. otherways he would need to turn debug on, ask the guy to retry, knowing that it wont work, but needing to collect the info and then afterwards correcting stuff, testing and then only turning debug off. almost any ppp tutorial features an debug line. so our policy regarding debug messages may be too strict, and may need to be looked at case by case. what do you think? thanks for your feedback. a++ maks
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 18:23 +0200, maximilian attems wrote:> hello guys, > > usually when confronted to debug messages, > we decline because of the huge amount of work they represent. > also our ruleset is quite impressive yet, and needs some processing.<snip>> almost any ppp tutorial features an debug line. > so our policy regarding debug messages may be too strict, > and may need to be looked at case by case. > > what do you think?I think Todd's idea of having a separate rule directory for debug (and possibly start/stop messages(?)) messages is a good one: "We get a lot of requests for start/stop messages and debug messages. I'm not really up for supporting debug messages, but if people want to write patches, I will include a new "optional" rule directory (perhaps there is a better name for this) that will be disabled by default, but allow for submission of start/stop messages and debug messages." -j -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/logcheck-devel/attachments/20050421/16628634/attachment.pgp