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  • Disable nnrpd group logging?

    From Jesse Rehmer@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 8 17:20:37 2022
    I think I've read the relevant man pages but may have missed it, but I'm looking for a way to disable nnrpd logging. More specifically, I don't want
    the news.notice log filling up with 'group' lines.

    Authentication and post commands are the items I feel I need to see, the rest are statistic oriented IMHO. Looking over things I don't see a way to accomplish that unless I filter with syslog. Just want to make sure I'm not missing an option that might accomplish that in inn.conf/readers.conf.

    Cheers,

    Jesse

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Julien_=c3=89LIE?=@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 8 19:52:29 2022
    Hi Jesse,

    I think I've read the relevant man pages but may have missed it, but I'm looking for a way to disable nnrpd logging. More specifically, I don't want the news.notice log filling up with 'group' lines.

    Authentication and post commands are the items I feel I need to see, the rest are statistic oriented IMHO. Looking over things I don't see a way to accomplish that unless I filter with syslog. Just want to make sure I'm not missing an option that might accomplish that in inn.conf/readers.conf.

    There's no parameter to only disable a specific log line.
    I would indeed recommend to use your syslog facility to filter group lines.

    Note that your Usenet daily reports will then no longer have the group
    counts (innreport uses that information).

    --
    Julien ÉLIE

    « I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get. » (Larry
    Wall)

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  • From Russ Allbery@21:1/5 to Jesse Rehmer on Fri Jul 8 10:56:19 2022
    Jesse Rehmer <[email protected]> writes:

    I think I've read the relevant man pages but may have missed it, but I'm looking for a way to disable nnrpd logging. More specifically, I don't
    want the news.notice log filling up with 'group' lines.

    Authentication and post commands are the items I feel I need to see, the
    rest are statistic oriented IMHO. Looking over things I don't see a way
    to accomplish that unless I filter with syslog. Just want to make sure
    I'm not missing an option that might accomplish that in inn.conf/readers.conf.

    The general intent for INN logging is that you filter all of the logs into separate files using syslog configuration and then only read the nighly
    report, which should summarize any important information in the logs that
    you need to be aware of. If you discard the "group" log lines, you will
    lose the statistics in the nightly report about what groups are being
    read; that's where that data comes from.

    Regardless, I don't believe nnrpd supports customizing its logging in the
    way you mention.

    --
    Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

    Please post questions rather than mailing me directly.
    <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/questions.html> explains why.

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