Bug#975694: [logcheck-database] stop filtering smartd attribute change events
control: tags -1 + moreinfo thanks On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:13:14 +0500 Alex Volkov wrote: > IDK how it was in 2006 when this stupid decision was made, but nowadays > `smartd` has all the needed filtering features in itself, in a case someone > gets "annoyed" by attribute changes. Yeah, sure, it "can send warning mails", > but by default only in a case of attribute FAILURE, and some Old-age related > attributes NEVER fail (like Power-On Hours on WD, which counts down to 1 and > just sits happily there, never getting to "failing" 0). In such cases at least > seeing them changing (or not) is useful. Overall, it's not the place for a > *maintainer* to decide (instead of a user) which events of a third-party > package are annoying and which are not. Following up on the above bug from 2020 -- we need more information here: what is the issue that you would like fixed? you can already (even in 2020) add or subtract any rules for logcheck that you like. smartd has a way to alert you to issues, but that is nothing to do with logcheck. in the absence of a clearer statement we would need to close this one.
Bug#975694: [logcheck-database] stop filtering smartd attribute change events
Package: logcheck-database Version: 1.3.20 Severity: wishlist --- Please enter the report below this line. --- IDK how it was in 2006 when this stupid decision was made, but nowadays `smartd` has all the needed filtering features in itself, in a case someone gets "annoyed" by attribute changes. Yeah, sure, it "can send warning mails", but by default only in a case of attribute FAILURE, and some Old-age related attributes NEVER fail (like Power-On Hours on WD, which counts down to 1 and just sits happily there, never getting to "failing" 0). In such cases at least seeing them changing (or not) is useful. Overall, it's not the place for a *maintainer* to decide (instead of a user) which events of a third-party package are annoying and which are not. --- System information. --- Architecture: Kernel: Linux 5.8.10-bootes0-p-1000 Debian Release: 10.6 991 stable security.debian.org 991 stable ftp.fi.debian.org 990 buster-backports ftp.debian.org 99 testing ftp.fi.debian.org 99 stable-backports www.deb-multimedia.org 99 stable www.deb-multimedia.org 500 stable deb.torproject.org 500 buster ookla.bintray.com 500 buster linux.dropbox.com --- Package information. --- Package's Depends field is empty. Package's Recommends field is empty. Package's Suggests field is empty.
