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

[Russ Allbery]

Frédéric Brière <fbriere at fbriere.net> writes:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 08:51:21PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:

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

> I can't speak for other people, but when I was sysadmin, I wanted to be
> informed of any problems *now*, not the day after.

IMO, getting the mail once a day instead of once an hour turns an annoying
reminder that you need to fix your rules into a huge message that no one
will bother reading.  So in short I agree.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>