On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 06:12:21PM +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: > > Could you explain a little bit more your rationale about this? It feels > > to me like a prime candidate for an SPU: serious issue affecting the > > overall stability of the system, that has a tiny, safe and easily > > backportable patch. > > The version packet logging is not a serious issue, it's a normal or > minor issue as it doesn't affect the usability of the package. > > If this causes an issue on large installation as reported in the OP, > then logrotate can be used to rotate the logs more frequently. Or the > newer version from stretch-backports can be installed.
I disagree on that -- excessive and spurious logging is a serious issue and filling up logs of the Nagios server fast is as well. Logrotate helps, but not with that rate, and regardless, not a great solution either (the logs become just an endless sea of garbage). And really, what's the downside? These logs are useless; the patch is upstream, is tiny, safe and easily backportable. If you're concerned about the effort... I'd be happy to provide patches and/or NMU! Thanks! Faidon