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Suppress logging shepherd evaluation in mcron.log

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Bruno Victal <mirai <at> makinata.eu>
Cc: 62163 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#62163: Suppress logging shepherd evaluation in mcron.log
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 15:24:12 +0200

Hi Bruno,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> Bruno Victal <mirai <at> makinata.eu> skribis:
>
>> On 2023-03-30 11:22, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> 
>>> You can send messages to the bitbucket with:
>>> 
>>>   (parameterize ((shepherd-message-port (%make-void-port "w0")))
>>>     …)
>>
>> While it does work for expunging them from mcron log, I noticed that
>> these lines are also polluting /var/log/messages and the snippet above
>> doesn't handle that.
>> Is there perhaps something else I'm missing?
>
> Nope, you cannot prevent them from ending up in /var/log/messages; they
> are purposefully logged.

What should we do about this bug?  Am I right that the conclusion is
that ‘my-heartbeat-job’ could send herd/shepherd output to the bit
bucket?  If yes, we can close this bug.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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