Re: [FLAME]: Log and console pollution: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team

[Harald Welte]

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On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 01:36:30AM +0800, Michael Frank wrote:
> Hi All,
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> I notice anoying messages in logs and on the console such as the above.
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> Gladly, most humble authors refrain from this bloat.

Well, it is not any more bloat than printing a line like 'ip_tables:
initialized ip_tables core successfully'.

> Could one ban these messages from the console altogether and perhaps
> mandate sending credits to a seperate "credits log" file

I remember a huge discussion on this subject quite some time (years?)
ago on lkml, so don't let's repeat a flame war about this.

> Regards
> Michael Frank

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  "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early
   architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going
   on while IP was being designed."                    -- Paul Vixie

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