Package: rstatd
Version: 4.0.1-2
Severity: normal

Whenever 'rpc.rstatd' is run (command-line or via inetd) it fills the syslog
file (/var/log/syslog) with alot of seemingly useless data - such as,

  Apr 12 06:26:36 mickey rpc.rstatd: interface: lo: 1676716   19852    0    0   
 0     0          0         0  1676716   19852    0    0    0     0       0     
     0 
  Apr 12 06:26:36 mickey rpc.rstatd: interface: eth0:4293315441 58535607 39151 
39151 39151     0          0      3723 3546348961 59318099   0    0    0     0  
     0          0 
  Apr 12 06:26:36 mickey rpc.rstatd: interface: sit0:       0       0    0    0 
   0     0          0         0        0       0    0    0    0     0       0   
       0 

It would be ideal to either disable this information from being outputted
(maybe via adding a '-quiet' option) or giving the user the ability to log
this data in a seperate user defined log file (maybe via '-log /path/file').

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-686-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages rstatd depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  netbase                     4.29         Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  portmap                     5-26         The RPC portmapper

rstatd recommends no packages.

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