[Logcheck-devel] Re: [Logcheck-commits] CVS logcheck/rulefiles/linux/ignore.d.server

[Gerfried Fuchs]

* Todd Troxell <ttroxell at debian.org> [2004-08-12 14:54]:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 03:12:32PM +0200, maks attems wrote:
>> On Tue, 03 Aug 2004, CVS User ttroxell wrote:
>> > Log Message:
>> > add qmail, proftpd rules
>> 
>> qmail is nonfree, changelog already features a removal of old qmail rules,
>> i'm against shipping 1.2.25 with those.
> 
> Could you explain your reasoning for this?  I don't see how it hurts logcheck
> to have a few extra rules included.  It is sad that qmail is non-free, but
> it is a widely used MTA.

 Well, a few extra rules makes some extra rules to maintain. Especially
with qmail it is a PITA because of all the patch sets flowing around
which produce all different log entries.

 The efforts are much better invested by convincing the maintainer of
those patches to provide the logcheck files themselfes, because they
know from first hand what logentries they produce.

 I do not strongly object to qmail rules, on the other hand who knows
which strange ideas djb might come up with respect to the loglines his
strangely licensed MTA might produce.

 So long,
Alfie
-- 
Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming:
        Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.
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