Munin-node's 'apt_all' cronjob.

[Daniel Hahler]

 On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:11:17 +0200, Sander Smeenk wrote:

> I am somewhat annoyed by the cronjob for Munin's apt_all plugin. This
> cronjob is enabled by default even if one does not activate the 
> apt_all
> plugin and it spams my syslog which is completely unnescessary, imo.
>
> Even though it is "only 288 lines a day"; with my server i have to
> 'grep -v' the crap to get a clear view of what happened in my logs.
>
> Yes i know i can disable it, but it seems to me such functionality
> should not be enabled by default at all.
>
> Any chance on making the default commented out in cron.d/munin-cron?
>
> The apt_all plugin could just error out if the cron isn't enabled or
> something similar, alerting the few users interrested in a graph of
> their packages to manually switch on the cronjob.
>
> Before i'm filing a wishlist bug, any comments?

 I agree with this, however maybe it would be possible to make the cron
 run (more) silent, e.g. by only logging to /var/log/cron, but not 
 syslog?!


 Thanks,
 Daniel