Package: openarena-server Version: 0.8.8-17 Severity: normal Currently all in-game messages including chat conversations are logged in systemd's journal and forwarded to the rsyslog daemon which in turn writes everything to /var/log/syslog. This is quite noisy and quickly fills /var/log/syslog with several megabyte of data per day. If one uses tools like logcheck which investigates /var/log/syslog by default and sends hourly emails about suspicious log activity, this can be quite annoying due to the missing ignore rules.
Of course the workaround is to write these ignore rules or to overwrite the default service files with a custom one which is placed in /etc/systemd/system. Normally the latter is a good advice but I think in this special case we could use the StandardOutput=null option and stop logging to /var/log/syslog at all. The OpenArena server already logs the same information to /var/games/openarena-server/server.oa/baseoa/games.log thus the information wouldn't be lost. Please consider to use StandardOutput=null in both service files. Markus -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: unable to detect Versions of packages openarena-server depends on: ii adduser 3.115 ii init-system-helpers 1.48 pn ioquake3-server <none> ii libc6 2.24-11 pn openarena-081-maps <none> pn openarena-081-misc <none> pn openarena-081-players <none> pn openarena-081-players-mature <none> pn openarena-081-textures <none> pn openarena-085-data <none> pn openarena-088-data <none> pn openarena-data <none> openarena-server recommends no packages. Versions of packages openarena-server suggests: pn openarena-oacmp1 <none>