On 12/21/2013 1:05 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 02:54:39PM -0600, Greg Rivers wrote: >> On Sat, 21 Dec 2013, Steve Kargl wrote: >> >>> It did not ask how to stop this stupidity. I asked to have this >>> stupidity stopped by default. The spewing of this information in >>> /var/log/messages provides NOTHING. Please turn it off by default. >>> >> >> Do you really feel that strongly about it? Having a record of changes to >> the system has always seemed like a feature to me... >> > > Yes, I do feel strongly about it. It is completely unnecesary noise. > It should be off by default. If someone wants to fill /var up with > useless information, then that someone can turn on the noise. It's about what's safe in the common case. There are significant security risks inherent in pkg's activities, so having a written external record is the safe option. I don't buy the "fill up /var" argument. If your /var is so small that pkg's logging risks filling it up, why are you not logging to an external syslog server? There are much more voluminous sources of logs on a FreeBSD system.Received on Sat Dec 21 2013 - 20:25:00 UTC
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