Mike Cappella:
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> On 9/11/09 5:57 PM, ghe wrote:
> >
> > On Sep 11, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
> >
> >>> Also since I didn't find it, I just re-postmapped 'em all.
> >>
> >> Postfix includes the name of the file that is out-of-date:
> >>
> >> warning: database /etc/postfix/access.db is older than source
> >> file /etc/postfix/access
> >>
> >> This is logged when the output file has not been updated withing 100s
> >> after the input file was modified.
> >
> > Ah!! Logwatch was giving me the wrong string to grep for. "older than
> > source" is all over the logs, all complaining about my sender checks.
> > Thanks, Wietse.
> >
>
> Most log messages in postfix-logwatch are either canonicalized or
> summarized. In this case, the message summary change was an attempt at
> being a little more clear, (but perhaps its not). The canonicalization
> (and uppercasing of the first word) makes strict grep'ing fail. Eg.,
> the grep:
I think that it is a mistake to replace the specific
warning: database /etc/postfix/client_checks.db is older than
source file /etc/postfix/client_checks
By the generic
Database file needs update
Because it keeps the reader in the dark (given the generic text,
the user does not even know what to look for in the logfile).
I agree that many programs produce useless error messages. In the
case of Postfix, I actually put in effort to make messages useful.
So would I appreciate it if other people don't dumb down the
information that Postfix tries to give.
Wietse
