Re: logcheck

[Rich Rudnick <nickrud@verizon.net>]

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 10:08 -0600, Rodney Richison wrote:
> 
> Dave Ewart wrote:
> 
> >On Monday, 10.01.2005 at 09:22 -0600, Rodney Richison wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I guess I need help figuring out how to make logcheck quit reporting 
> >>lines like this:
> >>
> >>Jan 10 08:07:25 deblists.rcrnet.net amavisd-new[11923]: (11923-03) Passed, 
> >><bounce-9309147-995167@lists.isp-lists.com> -> 
> >><rodney@deblists.rcrnet.net>, Message-ID: 
> >><19a9fd1705011006031d85ad89@mail.gmail.com>, Hits: -1.458
> >>
> >>I don't want to know if something passed.  amavis logs to 
> >>/var/log/amavis.log and I told logcheck to monitor it, but I'm getting TO 
> >>MUCH. I looked at the docs and was still unable to figure it out.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Add the expression:
> >
> >amavisd-new.*Passed
> >
> >to the appropriate logcheck
> >  
> >
> That's part of the problem. While 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html says 
> add it to this file |/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.reportlevel/local it does 
> not exist. However, there is a file in 
> ||/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.reportlevel/amavisd-new   I just now put this 
> in it amavis\[[0-9]+\]: +(\([-0-9]+\) +)?Passed
> 
> Sound reasonable?
> |
> 
Yes, except you really shouldn't put in amavisd-new, since those are the
rules the maintainer(s) think are useful; put your own rules in your own
file.