Package: sympa
Version: 4.1.5-1
Severity: normal
Hello,
thanks for packaging sympa!
Problem is: sympa (and its components such as wwsympa) logs too much,
even with the lowest possible verbosity, and in a bad way. We have
installed logcheck, and we have to consider ignoring sympa logs at all
because they have just too much noise.
I would expect normal activity to be logged only when the debug level is
set to a high verbosity, not all the time.
Some examples:
Mar 14 23:58:38 liste wwsympa[1765]: WWSympa started
Mar 15 00:01:27 liste wwsympa[2082]: [robot xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] [client
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] [list xxxxxxxxxx] d_access_control
Mar 15 08:57:22 liste sympa[1258]: Parsing:
Mar 15 08:57:30 liste sympa[1258]: DISTRIBUTE xxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx from xxxxxxxxxxxx accepted (8 seconds)
Mar 15 09:29:20 liste sympa[1258]: Deleting old file
/var/spool/sympa/queuemod/rfn_0509426a4df7553cc56bddf9d8b98b39
Here is some logcheck ignore rules we're working on. We've been working
on it for 2 weeks now, and more needs to be done: it's really
frustrating. I wonder if anyone ever cares to check sympa logs at all
:(
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^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ wwsympa\[[0-9]+\]: WWSympa started$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ wwsympa\[[0-9]+\]: \[robot [0-9a-z._-]+\]
\[client [^] ]+\]( \[user [^] ]+\])?( \[list [^] ]+\])?
(do_reject|do_subrequest|do_arc|do_arc_protect|do_login|do_subscribe|do_sigrequest|do_lists|do_help|do_logout|do_remindpasswd|do_d_read)\([^)]*\)[[:space:]]*$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ wwsympa\[[0-9]+\]: \[robot [0-9a-z._-]+\]
\[client [^] ]+\]( \[user [^] ]+\])?( \[list [^] ]+\])?
(d_access_control|do_pref|do_signoff|do_info|do_loginrequest)[[:space:]]*$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: Deleting old
(directory|file) /var/spool/sympa/(queuemod|queue/bad)/[^ ]+$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: Deleting old file
/var/spool/sympa/queue/bad/[^ ]+$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: DISTRIBUTE [0-9a-z.-]+
[0-9a-f]+ from [^ ]+ accepted \([0-9]+ seconds\)$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: SUB [0-9a-z.-]+ from [^ ]+,
auth requested \([0-9]+ seconds\)$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: Parsing:.*$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: No command found in
message[ ]*$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: Could not change multipart
to singlepart[ ]*$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: Multipart message changed
to singlepart[ ]*$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: Processing message for
[0-9a-z.-]+ with priority [0-9]+, <[^ >]+>( \(added by [^ )]+\))?$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: Processing web message for
[^ ]+[ ]*$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: Message for [0-9a-z._-]+
from [^ ]+ accepted \([0-9]+ seconds, [0-9]+ sessions\), size=[0-9]+$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: Message for [0-9a-z._-]+
from [^ ]+ rejected\(\) because sender not allowed[ ]*$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: Message for [^ ]+
(sent|forwarded)[ ]*$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: Sending digest to list
[0-9a-z._-]+$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: No subscriber for sending
digest in list [0-9a-z._-]+$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: Digest of the list
[0-9a-z._-]+ sent \([0-9]+ seconds\)$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: Warning : no editor defined
for list [0-9a-z._-]+, contacting owners$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: Ignoring message which
would cause a loop, sent by [^ ]+$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: Moving bad file [^ ]+ to
bad/[ ]*$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: Key [0-9a-f]+ for list [^
]+ from [^ ]+ sent to editors, [^ ]+[ ]*$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: No such list [^ ]+[ ]*$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: Unknown list [^ ]+[ ]*$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ sympa\[[0-9]+\]: Missing directory or config
file for [^ ]+[ ]*$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ task_manager\[[0-9]+\]:
eval_bouncers\([0-9a-z-]+\)$
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ bounced\[[0-9]+\]: error: no address found
in message from [^ ]+ for list [a-z]+
^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ archived\[[0-9]+\]: Archiving [^ ]+ for list
[^ ]+$
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Ciao,
Enrico
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-rc3
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages sympa depends on:
ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii exim [mail-transport-agent] 3.36-13 An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.14-1 Module for manipulation of ZIP arc
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcgi-fast-perl 5.8.4-6 CGI::Fast Perl module
ii libcrypt-ciphersaber-perl 0.61-4 Perl module implementing CipherSab
ii libdbd-mysql-perl 2.9003-3 A Perl5 database interface to the
ii libdbi-perl 1.46-6 Perl5 database interface by Tim Bu
ii libfcgi-perl 0.67-1 FastCGI Perl module
ii libio-stringy-perl 2.110-1 Perl5 modules for IO from scalars
ii libmailtools-perl 1.62-1 Manipulate email in perl programs
ii libmd5-perl 2.03-1 backwards-compatible wrapper for D
ii libmime-perl 5.417-1 Perl5 modules for MIME-compliant m
ii libmsgcat-perl 1.03-3 Locale::Msgcat perl module
ii libnet-ldap-perl 0.3202-2 A Client interface to LDAP servers
ii mhonarc 2.6.10-1 Mail to HTML converter
ii perl [libmime-base64-perl] 5.8.4-6 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-suid 5.8.4-6 Runs setuid Perl scripts
ii sysklogd [system-log-daemon 1.4.1-16 System Logging Daemon
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