Re: PACKAGESITE spam

On 2013-12-22 15:00, Frank Seltzer wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 21 Dec 2013, Steve Kargl wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 07:35:56PM +0100, dt71_at_gmx.com wrote:
>>> I've just installed a very recent -CURRENT, and now I'm performing a big portupgrade procedure. I get the following message spammed a lot:
>>>
>>> pkg: PACKAGESITE in pkg.conf is deprecated. Please create a repository configuration file
>>
>> Yeah, I noticed that spam along with the spam that is being
>> spewed to /var/log/messaage, e.g.,
>>
>> Dec 21 10:27:28 laptop-kargl pkg-static: libwpg-0.2.2 installed
>> Dec 21 10:31:15 laptop-kargl pkg-static: libcdr-0.0.14 installed
>> Dec 21 10:32:35 laptop-kargl pkg-static: openjpeg-1.5.0_2 installed
>> Dec 21 10:38:33 laptop-kargl pkg-static: poppler-data-0.4.6 installed
>> Dec 21 10:39:48 laptop-kargl pkg-static: poppler-0.22.2 installed
>> Dec 21 10:40:32 laptop-kargl pkg-static: ilmbase-2.1.0 installed
>> Dec 21 10:44:28 laptop-kargl pkg-static: OpenEXR-2.1.0_1 installed
>> Dec 21 10:47:36 laptop-kargl pkg-static: vigra-1.9.0_4 installed
>> Dec 21 10:51:00 laptop-kargl pkg-static: lp_solve-5.5.2.0 installed
>>
>> Can you (portmgr) please mute these messages?
>>
>> -- 
>> Steve
> 
> This received several responses.
> 
> Greg Rivers said:
> 
> Do you really feel that strongly about it?  Having a record of changes to
> the system has always seemed like a feature to me...
> 
> Baptiste Daroussin said:
> 
> this has been done and activated for reason, first for lot of companies, it is important (PCI DSS requirement for example), secondly I receive tons of request to actiavte on by default while you are the first to request it off by default
> 
> Adrian Chadd said:
> 
> The point is that some people like an audit trail. The audit trail for
> some people involves remote logging of syslog messages to a log host.
> This would include when packages are installed.
> 
> My thought:
> 
> Then why can't the messages about installed ports have it's own log file rather than /var/log/messages?
> 
> As for this message:
> 
> pkg: PACKAGESITE in pkg.conf is deprecated. Please create a repository configuration file
> 
> Glen Barber replied:
> 
> echo 'SYSLOG: no' >> /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf
> 
> And Shane Ambler:
> 
> now we can turn it off which I don't think we could before.
> 
> Me again:
> 
> Where is this documented?
> 
> /root # man pkg.conf
> No manual entry for pkg.conf

Hm, on all my systems I have a man page for pkg.conf

Here is the referenced passage from man 5 pkg.conf

OPTIONS
  The following options can be defined in pkg.conf:
...
  SYSLOG: boolean    This option is enabled by default, log all
                     the installation/deinstallation/upgrade oper-
                     ation via syslog(3)


What I agree is having it would be nice to have dedicated syslog
(like yum.log) instead /var/log/messages since this is already
spammed by most every process.

-- 
olli