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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++