After switching from the old Chrome app to the new Signal Desktop app, my syslog began to get spammed with lines containing stuff like “Sending a keepalive message”. They seemingly come from gnome-session, but it’s actually Signal operating under gnome-session. Not having the actual application name for filtering, I just made a slightly hackish /etc/rsyslog.d/20-redirect-signal.conf …
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