From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ns9RZ-0005Qq-82 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:42:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4FE83E079B; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:42:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com (mail-bw0-f227.google.com [209.85.218.227]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EFA3E079B for ; Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:42:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so1786660bwz.37 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:42:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=bhaixZ7HGfWGEkkfCW/pQAO3rB9JskBsdasLiD+jr+4=; b=qM2IlpFQCojkjjKJDGM/45fxdgv+P/HDCDRFMEJZti1FPAjBR61XC7H3W4ziig40oH cUSVtWc0Y0MP094PZFrXNxlIwzIgGaFp5TcV4Ca9yd1384TxxiPNgHe0t5a5cDqPsopF DmNu011IX+DoCLaHxYq0N0CL2jIk2O4g0/3vQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=IpTHpqC1DeNPHnT0MK9y1rT6HQglvD1CaU5Siw7TKASwJkaM74GMhSL4LHh6iZvjUL cU3xdQ5+AMW3H3GpqQaKwBxtTm/RmPVv5xCrnA4L3WAqhCNBe5wx6pgnRNIjQ8W3/9S6 8oO793tnCwIz2KUwBAxSuuonUcsqGKhI24ji8= Received: by 10.204.143.130 with SMTP id v2mr2086541bku.7.1268894566292; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:42:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-2-122.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.2.122]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g18sm34162659bkw.1.2010.03.17.23.42.44 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:42:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng filtering Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 08:39:51 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.1 (Linux/2.6.32-zen6; KDE/4.4.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Ralph Slooten , Keith Dart References: <17bd4e851003161622x21b7e78chc228017250c7ff0f@mail.gmail.com> <20100317134012.3e8d33ca@dartworks.biz> <17bd4e851003171443o83ad3f7g1df8c10d8819bc57@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <17bd4e851003171443o83ad3f7g1df8c10d8819bc57@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003180839.51868.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 77fa3ddc-0bae-4abe-8ddb-22c26d6940a3 X-Archives-Hash: effb8fa5a0cbbc5aaca48767bfe1f977 On Wednesday 17 March 2010 23:43:39 Ralph Slooten wrote: > On 18 March 2010 09:40, Keith Dart wrote: > > You can comment that out and then those annoying run-cron entries won't > > be logged. > > Yes, dropping those entries on the client side is an option, however then I > have to do it for each client in the network. Doing it on the server means > just once... and it's all local network, no bandwidth isn't an issue > either. > > There are also some cron jobs I do want logged ~ things that run maybe > weekly or monthly, but some run every minute and really don't need to be > logged. And you still have to cater for the case where some joker sends you heaps of unwanted stuff despite you repeatedly asking him not to. Or, god forbid, you have to receive logs from Cisco kit. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com