Re: Warning messages

John F Hall <jfhall-wwu-8Wqby1sJ1UaTY6FTCsQk+9Bc4/[email protected]> writes:

> I have been getting about 2000 messages a day in my syslog saying
> "wwwoffles[...]: Cannot write to client; disconnected?" - most, but not
> all, while the htdig daily (incremental) indexing run is happening - and
> they're happening several times a second.
> 
> I've been ignoring these, but as they're potentially hiding important
> messages I decided last week to track down the cause.  I find that
> there are 3 places in wwwoffles that generates them (or similar) as
> "Warnings".  The other warnings appear to be potentially serious things,
> disk full, wrong permissions, etc, so I don't want to change the
> log-level.  However "client disconnected" appears to be a "so what".  I
> have therefore changed those three to "Inform" - below the default log
> level.  My syslog is clean again :-).
> 
> May I offer that as a suggestion for a permanent change.

I think that this is an excellent idea (I have been noticing them
recently too).  This will be in the next version.

-- 
Andrew.
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