FS#52209 - [man-db] Add --quiet option to service

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Sven Karsten Greiner (SammysHP) - Monday, 19 December 2016, 21:12 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 19 March 2017, 10:02 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

In 2.7.5-3 the --quiet option in man-db.service got lost. This results in many useless status messages in the journal.

ExecStart=/usr/bin/mandb --quiet
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Sunday, 19 March 2017, 10:02 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Tuesday, 20 December 2016, 19:11 GMT Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Tuesday, 20 December 2016, 19:31 GMT
Yeah, I was leaning more to letting things log than silencing them. At the time it was just a handful of lines once a day.

However, recently I'm seeing a lot more warnings in the log, especially from the wayland package. Maybe we should check out why they get produced?

That said --quiet can go back if it's annoying people for no reason we care about.
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Tuesday, 20 December 2016, 19:34 GMT
Sample man-db run
   logs.txt (67.1 KiB)
Comment by John (graysky) - Sunday, 22 January 2017, 11:39 GMT
+1 to add the -q switch... my journalctl is full of meaningless spam relating to bad symlink or ROFF .so request, no such file or directory blah blah blah
Comment by Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) - Sunday, 22 January 2017, 13:35 GMT
It's not meaningless, they're errors! Please file bugs against the packages the affected manpages belong to.
Comment by Sven Karsten Greiner (SammysHP) - Sunday, 22 January 2017, 14:57 GMT
There are not only errors, also unnecessary status messages.

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