Logcheck users - Jan 2006 - Re: Logcheck-users Digest, Vol 5, Issue 1

The entry is probably not igored because of
the word deny in your path .
You might better set your rule in violation.ignore.d/ directory.



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>    1. Log Entry not being ignored (Andrew Berry)
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>Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 21:06:56 +0000 (GMT)
>From: Andrew Berry <andrew@aberry.co.uk>
>Subject: [Logcheck-users] Log Entry not being ignored
>To: Logcheck-users@lists.alioth.debian.org
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>All,
>
>Apologies if this is a simple error but it's been confusing me for a few
>weeks and I have no idea how to fix it.
>
>I've set a cron job to run 3 times an hour (as root) and logcheck's
>picking up on this (but no others).  The output in the email is this:-
>
>Jan  8 20:21:01 homer /USR/SBIN/CRON[8637]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/python
>/root/denyhosts/denyhosts.py -c /root/denyhosts/denyhosts.cfg)
>Jan  8 20:41:01 homer /USR/SBIN/CRON[2949]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/python
>/root/denyhosts/denyhosts.py -c /root/denyhosts/denyhosts.cfg)
>Jan  8 21:01:01 homer /USR/SBIN/CRON[12711]: (root) CMD (/usr/bin/python
>/root/denyhosts/denyhosts.py -c /root/denyhosts/denyhosts.cfg)
>
>I've added the following to /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/cron (I assume
>this is the correct file):-
>
>^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ \USR\SBIN\CRON\[[0-9]+\]: 
>\([_[:alnum:]-]+\)
>CMD \(/usr/bin/python /root/denyhosts/denyhosts.py -c 
>/root/denyhosts/denyhosts.
>cfg\)$
>
>All the testing I've carried out shows that this is correct.
>
>I am running Debian Stable and the version of logcheck from aptitude is
>1.2.39.
>
>Can anyone point me in the correct direction?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Andrew
>
>--
>Andrew Berry
>andrew@aberry.co.uk
>http://www.aberry.co.uk
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