similar to: Bug#268277: logcheck documentation bug

I'm not sure if this message ever made it to you, Jamie. I had a reverse DNS problem shortly after it was sent. ----- Forwarded message from Todd Troxell <ttroxell at debian.org> ----- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 01:22:18 -0400 From: Todd Troxell <ttroxell at debian.org> To: "Jamie L. Penman-Smithson" <jamie at silverdream.org> Subject: Re: Logcheck rules from other

On Sat, 15 May 2004, CVS User ttroxell wrote: > if [ -f /etc/logcheck/header.txt ] ; then > - $CAT /etc/logcheck/header.txt >> $TMPDIR/report > + $CAT /etc/logcheck/header.txt >> $TMPDIR/report \ > + || error "Could not append header to $TMPDIR/report Disk full?" > fi > } > > @@ -152,7 +157,8 @@ > # Add a footer

A new archive was announced for packages that have need for frequent changes [see below]. In theory, we should not have to update logcheck rules in Sarge, because we know that it's packages, with the exception of security updates will remain constant. This does not change the fact that we may wish to update the database on sarge <: Any thoughts? -Todd ----- Forwarded message from

Martin F. Krafft (madduck) has been added to the project. P.S. I'd like to get a release out sometime next week. -- Todd Troxell http://rapidpacket.com/~xtat -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url :

Hey team, I'll be at sea on and off this week, and as such my Internet access will depend on wifi availability while in port. 22a seems stable, but if any critical problems arise, feel free to prepare a release and bug Alfie to upload it. On the brighter side, I expect to be extremely bored while offline so I'll probably get some logcheck work done. <: Cheers, -- [ Todd J.

I have rules like this on my servers: ^\w{3} [ :[:digit:]]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ proftpd\[[[:digit:]]+\]: [._[:alnum:]-]+ \([._[:alnum:]-]+\[[[:digit:].]{7,15}\]\) (- )USER [-_.[:alnum:]]+: no such user found from [._[:alnum:]-]+ \[[[:digit:].]{7,15}\]\ to [[:digit:].]{7,15}:21$ basically, I just don't care about logins as nonexistent users, I get so many of those that I don't even

Package: logcheck Version: 1.2.20a Severity: important Since logcheck changed to run as user logcheck, the error mails of the cron daemon end up in /var/mail/logcheck where nobody reads them. Mails for logcheck should be aliased to root like all the other mails of system accounts. I was searching for a long time what was wrong with my logcheck not delivering any mails. The lock directory was

Package: logcheck Version: 1.2.20a Severity: normal Followup-For: Bug #247360 I can't find NEWS.Debian in the package. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.5 Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R Versions of packages logcheck depends on: ii adduser

Package: logcheck Version: 1.2.34 Severity: wishlist I have a couple of home-made logcheck ignore files, and happened to have one unescaped (and unmatched) `(' in one of the filter lines. Because of this, cron sent a mail with the body "grep: Invalid regular expression" - the subject is the command in the "2 * * * *" line in /etc/cron.d/logcheck, of course. It would be

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005, CVS User ttroxell wrote: > @@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ > chown logcheck /var/lock/logcheck > /dev/null 2>&1 || true > fi > > + # fix for #284788 > + # update timestamp on cron > + touch /etc/cron.d/logcheck || true > + > ;; > > abort-upgrade|abort-remove|abort-deconfigure) on a box with a broken coreutils install

Package: logcheck Version: 1.2.42 Severity: minor Tags: patch Logcheck does not report any error if the config file is not readable or does not exists. This may easily happen, as logcheck is run as logcheck user and while one is testing a new configuration on live system with running configuration intact. Following fragment may help: # Now source the config file - before things that should

Package: logcheck-database Version: 1.2.33 Severity: normal I just installed 1.2.33, and it made my rules dirs setuid, not setgid... - Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-k7 Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of

Package: logcheck Version: 1.2.32 Severity: minor "Ghandi" should be "Gandhi" in README.how.to.interpret, assuming that you mean the Indian freedom fighter M.K. Gandhi a.k.a. Mahatma Gandhi. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Package: logcheck Version: 1.2.32 Severity: important In postinst logcheck "fixes" permissions of /etc/logcheck/* to 750. In my (and others on #d-d) opinion ownership and permissions should be preserved upon package upgrades. Logcheck must not screw with my decision to make them world readable every time it configures. -- Peter

apt-get install svn-buildpackage cat <<_eof >> ~/.svn-buildpackage.conf svn-lintian svn-linda svn-move _eof mkdir logcheck; cd logcheck svn co svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/logcheck/logcheck/trunk cd trunk svn-buildpackage -k<your key ID> -rfakeroot man svn-buildpackage for more. Nice, huh? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck at debian.org> : :' :

Package: logcheck Version: 1.2.43a Severity: normal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have messages like these in my logs: Apr 27 10:05:49 localhost smartd[9357]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate changed from 58 to 57 Apr 27 10:05:49 localhost smartd[9357]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Usage Attribute: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered changed from 58 to 57

Package: logcheck Version: 1.2.20a Severity: serious Tags: patch On a system where sh points to dash and LANG=es_ES, I get this: # apt-get -y --reinstall install logcheck Leyendo lista de paquetes... 0% Leyendo lista de paquetes... 0% Leyendo lista de paquetes... 23% Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho Creando ?rbol de dependencias... 0% Creando ?rbol de dependencias... 0% Creando ?rbol de

Package: logcheck-database Version: 1.2.35 Severity: wishlist If it were possible, please add rules to ignore SSH debug level messages like these: Mar 22 18:59:29 cante sshd[5673]: debug2: channel 4: rcvd adjust 66020 Mar 22 18:59:34 cante sshd[5673]: debug2: channel 4: window 32736 sent adjust 32800 Sometimes the SSH need to be run with DEBUG in order to pinpoint connection troubles and

hello everyone, thanks to todd 1.2.21 is out :) every release getting better, i would like to get consensus on these "important" bugs: #252078 logtail: should depend on perl >= 5.8 sarge as any other modern linux distro use perl 5.8.x, it's even inside of its base. backports are under the peril of its author if no one voices up, i'll close that bug in the next days.

Package: courier-imap-ssl,logcheck-database Severity: wishlist Please move /etc/logcheck/*/courier to the courier packages and out of logcheck-database. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers stable APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (600, 'testing'), (98, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked