Adam Funk
2007-May-04 16:38 UTC
[Logcheck-users] How to ignore hddtemp lines that contain 0x80 character?
Since I upgraded from Ubuntu Edgy to Feisty, hddtemp's output to syslog has ended in "^P?: 34 C" (for example), where the ? represents a funny character (octal 200, hex 80) that ".*" doesn't match, so hddtemp always shows up in logcheck's output. I've tried copying and pasting the funny character from syslog into the ignore pattern, and I still can't suppress this. Following the documentation's suggestion to use egrep, I've worked out that $ egrep $'^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ hddtemp.*:.*\x80:.*$' /var/log/syslog shows the lines I want logcheck to ignore. But the line ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ hddtemp.*:.*\x80:.*$ in the ignore file isn't working. What is the trick to getting logcheck to handle encoded hex values correctly? [Apologies for the duplication! I posted this to the gmane.comp.log.logcheck group recently, then discovered that's the logcheck-devel list and logcheck-users is here.] Thanks, Adam