Ticket #361 (new enhancement)

Opened 7 months ago

Last modified 7 months ago

we know that libuuid and mit conflict; don't syslog it

Reported by: geofft Owned by:
Priority: low Milestone:
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Cc: Upstream bug:

Description

Although we should deal with renumbering mit or whatever we choose to do (see #299) eventually, that's not going to happen soon. In the meantime, it's kind of useless to keep syslogging

Sep  1 13:54:24 tyger hal-acl-tool: nss_nonlocal: removing local group 101 (libuuid) from non-local user geofft 
Sep  1 13:54:24 tyger last message repeated 4 times
Sep  1 13:54:24 tyger getent: nss_nonlocal: removing local group 101 (libuuid) from non-local user geofft 
Sep  1 13:54:24 tyger hal-acl-tool: nss_nonlocal: removing local group 101 (libuuid) from non-local user geofft 
Sep  1 13:54:26 tyger last message repeated 62 times

etc. since that message doesn't help anyone: users don't care, and the Debathena team isn't taking any additional action because that message continues to appear on everyone's system.

I see three mostly-reasonable courses of action:

  1. Special-case libuuid/mit in the logging function
  2. Suppress this error entirely -- have we seen it be useful for debugging?
  3. Don't print the error more than once per session (although "session" probably poorly defined for an NSS module)

Change History

Changed 7 months ago by jdreed

The right answer is probably to change nss_nonlocal so that these messages are logged with priority DEBUG (or INFO) instead of WARNING.

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