My own opinion is that these are valid messages and I would rather see them in the log than not in the log. There maybe a time when you are investigating something and their presence in the log helps you deduce what has happened.
However I concede that there maybe times when it is hard to see the forest from the trees due to the presence of these many log entries.
Two things that may help users with their log files.
1. Rather than writing a single log file STARTLOG("error.log"), write to individual log files based on some combination of one or more of program-name, user-name, date, PID etc. My experience was to use program-name and user-name, that way when person A rung up complaining that program X had crashed, we would look up A_X.log and see what had happened to them
2. The other thing is that the message in the log file is consistent. So it is possible to set up a cronjob or similar to create a slimmed down copy of the log file(s) with certain errors filtered out.
Hope that helps,
Reuben
