Beware Debian 13 syslog-ng stats setting

John Kristoff <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:09:48 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.syslog-ng
Message-ID <[email protected]>
If you use Debian's packaged syslog-ng beware that you may have this
set in your Debian 13 /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf:

  stats(freq(1));

This was briefly introduced and then removed.  You probably don't want
it if you have it - daemon stats would be logged every second.

Debian does not install syslog-ng by default and many may be installing
packages from elsewhere or from source, so hopefully this does not have
a wide impact.

Where it was added:

  <https://github.com/gcsideal/syslog-ng-debian/commit/319fd669944def7dbb1bc507d85e254443a63d31>

Where it was removed:

  <https://github.com/gcsideal/syslog-ng-debian/commit/f7ee172d62009cc6b5e6a62d51482c3274249e8e>

John
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