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

[Frédéric Brière]

martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org> wrote:
> On all of my machines, puppet changes that line to "*/5 * * * *" so
> that my logcheck runs every five minutes.

You're quite mad.  :)

> 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.

I sure hope this will involve some throttling of some sort.  When things
go wrong, the last thing you want is an email flood.


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