Re: leafnode creating multi-megabyte log files )-:

Arthur Marsh <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> I'm also running logcheck and it is spending hours processing log files 
> of the form:

> May 16 14:05:59 victoria fetchnews[24378]: gmane.test: killed 3423 
> (<el9g92$uv5$
> [email protected]>), too old (1621 > 15) days
> May 16 14:05:59 victoria fetchnews[24378]: gmane.test: killed 3424 
> (<ela7ta$7g0$
> [email protected]>), too old (1621 > 15) days

Maybe there is a problem with commits
71894c6e96d7afad506776bfe8156a0848ab4f4c
resp.
6f5b52277e4a0cfcd6b85eb714679a0d537d24a3
?

Will investigate when I find the time.

> Is there any straightforward way to stop leafnode writing such log files 
> to begin with?

For the default syslog daemon (rsyslog) in Debian the following changes
should work:
#v+
--- /etc/rsyslog.conf.orig	2011-05-19 10:19:51.808359097 +0200
+++ /etc/rsyslog.conf	2011-05-19 10:21:43.400348458 +0200
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@
 ###############
 #### RULES ####
 ###############
+#Discard messages from the news system with priority info.
+news.=info	~
 
 #
 # First some standard log files.  Log by facility.
#v-
e.g add the line
news.=info     ~

at the top of your rules section in /etc/rsyslog.conf.

Don't forget /etc/init.d/rsyslog restart.

Rob
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