[FLAME]: Log and console pollution: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team

[FLAME]: Log and console pollution: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team

[Michael Frank]

Hi All,

I notice anoying messages in logs and on the console such as the above.

Gladly, most humble authors refrain from this bloat.

Could one ban these messages from the console altogether and perhaps mandate sending credits to a seperate "credits log" file

Regards
Michael Frank

Re: [FLAME]: Log and console pollution: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team

[Maciej Soltysiak]

Hi,

> Gladly, most humble authors refrain from this bloat.
Strange, i though we are coding for fame and glory ? :)

But seriously...
You see these messages only when you load the module. On a
non-testbed-machine it is once a boot. I would not call that polluting
the logs.

On the other hand on a testbed-machine you see these messages when you
load and reload the modules. I treat these messages as debug messages.
When I develop a module i put versioning info there, and i know if I
loaded the correct module or some previous version.

Regards,
Maciej Soltysiak

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Re: [FLAME]: Log and console pollution: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team

[Harald Welte]

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On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 01:36:30AM +0800, Michael Frank wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I notice anoying messages in logs and on the console such as the above.
> 
> Gladly, most humble authors refrain from this bloat.

Well, it is not any more bloat than printing a line like 'ip_tables:
initialized ip_tables core successfully'.

> Could one ban these messages from the console altogether and perhaps
> mandate sending credits to a seperate "credits log" file

I remember a huge discussion on this subject quite some time (years?)
ago on lkml, so don't let's repeat a flame war about this.

> Regards
> Michael Frank

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- Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>             http://www.netfilter.org/
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  "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early
   architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going
   on while IP was being designed."                    -- Paul Vixie

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