[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> [2009.08.21.2027 +0200]:
> > 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.

Yes, it should be exponential backoff based on counters on
individual rules matched.

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