Carlos E. R. wrote:
And anyway, probing messagges are noise by definition, unless there is a "I can not probe at all", and this can be told to the user in the same dialog where I ask to open the scanner or probe for it. The messages about the progress of the probing are not to go into the warning log. [snip] The syslog definition is correct, the problem is the programs defining their debug messages as warnings.
Well, seeing as your ideas of debugging are quite different to mine, I guess it is time for a bugzilla or a pull request.
We remove the logging to it, yes. Nobody ever looks at it. I think it is an ancient relic from early UNIX days. The syslog config has a lot of old crud - for instance:
/var/log/mail.info/err/notice /var/log/news/news.crit/err/notice.
I use both.
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