[CentOS] Google Ads in rsyslog documentation files

On Tue, November 24, 2015 10:41 am, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Peter Eckel wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I know this comes from upstream (and most likely from the rsyslog
> project itself), but what's your opinion about Google Ads in system
> documentation files?
>>
>>> [peckel at mucnvjmppmtr01 ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
>>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.7 (Santiago)
>>> [peckel at mucnvjmppmtr01 ~]$ grep google /usr/share/doc/rsyslog-5.8.10/*
> /usr/share/doc/rsyslog-5.8.10/rsyslog_secure_tls.html:google_ad_client
> = "pub-3204610807458280";
>>> /usr/share/doc/rsyslog-5.8.10/rsyslog_secure_tls.html:google_ad_slot =
> "5958614527";
>>> /usr/share/doc/rsyslog-5.8.10/rsyslog_secure_tls.html:google_ad_width =
> 125;
> <snip>
>> I find it rather disconcerting if there are commercial ads embedded in
> help texts I find on my open source servers.
>
> "Disconcerting" isn't the word I would use. Completely unacceptable is
> what I'd say. I think it's time to put in a bug report to upstream.... I
> need to check with my manager.

"obnoxious" would be the word I would use. I checked on one of my CentOS 6
boxes, and it is there. I never had high opinion about google itself, but
today RedHat fell in my eyes one notch down as well.

Valeri

>
> I do note this is not the case in rsyslog on CentOS 7.
>
>         mark
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