Hi Jamie, on Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 22:17:41 +0100, you wrote:
> A server is in almost all cases meant to be up and available 24/7, > anacron is designed for systems (such as workstations) which are not. > > Most servers will be running cron, not anacron. So? Actually none of my servers runs anacron. My desktop box however does and logcheck does not filter its messages. Though I could easily come up with examples of servers where using anacron would perfectly make sense, like servers used at events. It is not logcheck's business to tell the user what packages to install or not in which scenario, but simply to filter those syslog messages generated by *any* package that are irrelevant in the given scenario. The filtering levels paranoid, server and workstation are, quoting README.logcheck, "functioning rather like verbosity settings" nothing more (maybe paranoid, normal and ignorant would be more fitting?). They are much more a matter of how much information the user wishes to get about his systems than what he uses them for. Besides the admittedly extreme and exceptional, yet perfectly valid use cases of the tinfoil-hat wearing individual using paranoid level on his workstation on the one hand and the careless admin using workstation level for his servers on the other hand, there is mine of using the server level for a workstation right inbetween. Quoting the description of the workstation level in README.logcheck that level "is only appropriate for relatively sheltered, non-critical machines." That does not apply to my workstation nor any developer workstation running various services and its again easy to come up with more examples. BTW, that description apparently could use an update I guess, "anything matching "kernel:"" sounds a lot like originating from the times of unanchored rules. :) elmar -- .'"`. /"\ | :' : Elmar Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / `. `' GPG key available via pgp.net against HTML email X `- & vCards / \
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