Bug#864572: openarena-server: consider to use StandardOutput=null in systemd service files

[Markus Koschany]

Package: openarena-server
Version: 0.8.8-17
Severity: normal

Currently all in-game messages including chat conversations are
logged in systemd's journal and forwarded to the rsyslog daemon which
in turn writes everything to /var/log/syslog. This is quite noisy and
quickly fills /var/log/syslog with several megabyte of data per day.
If one uses tools like logcheck which investigates /var/log/syslog by
default and sends hourly emails about suspicious log activity, this
can be quite annoying due to the missing ignore rules.

Of course the workaround is to write these ignore rules or to
overwrite the default service files with a custom one which is placed
in /etc/systemd/system.

Normally the latter is a good advice but I think in this special case
we could use the StandardOutput=null option and stop logging to
/var/log/syslog at all. The OpenArena server already logs the same
information to /var/games/openarena-server/server.oa/baseoa/games.log
thus the information wouldn't be lost.

Please consider to use StandardOutput=null in both service files.

Markus


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

Versions of packages openarena-server depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.115
ii  init-system-helpers           1.48
pn  ioquake3-server               <none>
ii  libc6                         2.24-11
pn  openarena-081-maps            <none>
pn  openarena-081-misc            <none>
pn  openarena-081-players         <none>
pn  openarena-081-players-mature  <none>
pn  openarena-081-textures        <none>
pn  openarena-085-data            <none>
pn  openarena-088-data            <none>
pn  openarena-data                <none>

openarena-server recommends no packages.

Versions of packages openarena-server suggests:
pn  openarena-oacmp1  <none>