Syslog alerts

[John Robison]

I have an alert that goes to the syslog, which outputs "syslog[24764]: Task
run status changed: Task status changed to 'Done'". It would be more
helpful if this told me which task was which, and preferably if it would
identify itself as OpenVAS. Is any of that user configurable?

Thanks in advance.

[Matthew Mundell]

Post by John Robison
I have an alert that goes to the syslog, which outputs "syslog[24764]: Task
run status changed: Task status changed to 'Done'". It would be more
helpful if this told me which task was which, and preferably if it would
identify itself as OpenVAS. Is any of that user configurable?

No, that's all it logs.

Probably not useful for you, but the success/fail of pretty much every
command is logged by the logging mechanism, which can be directed to syslog
in the config file etc/openvas/openvasmd_log.conf. The messages contain
slightly more info

event task:MESSAGE:2014-08-27 10h10.11 SAST:1409127011.160044:6238: Task 68aabe5a-ba84-4e87-bbf3-2e1e0d8fad01 has been requested to start by m

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