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Bug 522256

Summary: net-misc/tor - gentoo patch to activate logging to syslog per default should be restricted/removed
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Toralf Förster <toralf>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Anthony Basile <blueness>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: kensington
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Toralf Förster gentoo-dev 2014-09-06 13:49:11 UTC
After a recent discussion at #tor I'm convinced that the Gentoo patch wrt the torrc file to let tor log to syslog per default should either be removed (upstream did not log per default) or at least it should be changed from level "notice" to "warn".
Comment 1 Anthony Basile gentoo-dev 2014-09-06 13:55:28 UTC
(In reply to Toralf Förster from comment #0)
> After a recent discussion at #tor I'm convinced that the Gentoo patch wrt
> the torrc file to let tor log to syslog per default should either be removed
> (upstream did not log per default) or at least it should be changed from
> level "notice" to "warn".

Okay I've committed this without a rev bump since its minor enough.  But why is notice bad?
Comment 2 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev 2014-09-06 14:22:43 UTC
(In reply to Anthony Basile from comment #1)
> Okay I've committed this without a rev bump since its minor enough.  But why
> is notice bad?

While a comprehensive answer can be found somewhere in the Tor Wiki pages (I don't have the link in moment) I realized at a test system, that "notice" is too noisy (http://dpaste.com/2K3JBFS) and due to the nature of the tor usage this might be unwanted in certain cases.

(and it should be stated here, that Tor devs do not activate log per default at all)