[Logcheck-devel] Bug#542663: logcheck: /etc/cron.d/logcheck runs too often (now every 2 hours)

Jari Aalto jari.aalto at cante.net
Thu Aug 20 17:51:21 UTC 2009


Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.69
Severity: minor


The Default cron setup is:

    2 * * * *      logcheck    if [ -x /usr/sbin/logcheck ]; then nice -n10 /usr/sbin/logcheck; fi

This is extremely too often. Getting huge number of mail every two
hours is filling in the mailboxes.

A more appropriate default would be every 24h (once a day).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser            3.110                 add and remove users and groups
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20081101cvs-2 A simple mail user agent
ii  cron               3.0pl1-106            process scheduling daemon
ii  exim4-daemon-heavy 4.69-11               Exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
ii  lockfile-progs     0.1.13                Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logtail            1.2.69                Print log file lines that have not
ii  mailx              1:20081101-2          Transitional package for mailx ren
ii  rsyslog [system-lo 4.2.0-1               enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

Versions of packages logcheck recommends:
ii  logcheck-database             1.2.69     database of system log rules for t

Versions of packages logcheck suggests:
pn  syslog-summary                <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information





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