Re: sysmon(4) messages

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost> writes:

I agree this is confusing.

> Would it make more sense to change this to either
>
>   $dev: $sensor changed to $state
>
> and hope for the best (at least now there are no extra nouns that come
> from the message template), or make things verbose and very explicit
> with something like
>
>   $dev: sensor '$sensor' changed state to '$state'

That seems like a big improvement.  I think I prefer

  $dev: sensor '$sensor' changed to '$state'

as a sensor's value is implicitly a state and fewer words are better.

But I do like the leading "sensor " as likely to reduce confusion.