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

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Frédéric Brière <fbriere at fbriere.net> [2009.08.21.0214 +0200]:
> > 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.

On all of my machines, puppet changes that line to "*/5 * * * *" so
that my logcheck runs every five minutes.

I think this is suboptimal. I'd like the next generation of logcheck
to be a daemon scaping the syslog socket and be able to react
immediately.

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