Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)
On Fri, 02 Jun 2017, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> On 06/01/2017 01:00 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> >Anything on the top three priorities (critical, alert and emergency) is
> >supposed to be displayed immediately to all logged-in users (including
> >remote ones), no matter what.
>
> Only LOG_EMERG does that, at least on my machine and I'm pretty sure that's
> the default rsyslog config. Unfortunately, a RAID member failure is only
> legitimately LOG_ALERT. Sort of a moot point though...
Hmm, true. I misrecalled this detail and failed to check it to be
correct before posting.
We should consider changing that to at least include ALERT as well.
> >>It would be great it we had an alert program to use instead of email
> >KDE displays high-priority system alerts as high priority notifications
> >by default (maybe some of it because of the default configuration of
> >rsyslog).
>
> Running KDE here, so familiar with them. The first problem with those is
> they automatically vanish after a few seconds. They remain around, if you
> pull up the alert notifier, but that little (1) in the systray is easy to
> miss.
Yes. I just tested it in Debian stable with "logger -p EMERG
this_is_only_a_test".
It would be far better if KDE used the (!) pictogram at least for ALERT
and EMERG priorities, but it seems to be getting the messages from the
ttys instead of from journald or the syslog daemon. I did not test this
throughoutly, though.
And yes, I stand corrected. It does not display ALERT or CRIT priorities
by default, only EMERG. Which is Not Good Enough as far as I am
concerned.
> Second problem is that only works if you're logged in. Even on a typical
> desktop where the main user is the admin, it's not safe to assume a that
> user will always be logged in:
Well, yes. Remote syslog (wherever deployed) will receive the messages
quasi-real-time, though. And the messages *are* going to be recorded on
the journal and /var/log/syslog.
Whether someone will read the logs or not, well... it is the same issue
with notifications over local email to root: one has to assume the
system has been properly configured as an Unix workstation (and thus it
has local email routing that goes somewhere it will be read).
I am for doing the three by default: email (for stuff like mdadm),
proper syslog or journald (for everything), and proper desktop-
environment notifications for whomever is logged in.
> * Turn on machine, go grab coffee or tea while it's booting. Disk
> failure occurs before you get back and log in.
In the older days, you'd have the messages on the login tty, even if it
screwed up the graphical screen (Solaris and Sun-OS style ;p).
Or you'd have a xconsole window open, even on the xdm screen (which I
never tried to do, I wonder if this was a local xdm change...)
--
Henrique Holschuh
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