[Following up to myself]
David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
> Since upgrading to Wheezy, I've had the following entries showing up in
> my morning logwatch E-Mail:
>
>> --------------------- Dovecot Begin ------------------------
>>
>> Dovecot disconnects:
>> Inactivity: 27 Time(s)
>> Inactivity (tried to use disallowed plaintext auth): 2 Time(s)
>> Logged out in=1115 out=13676: 1 Time(s)
>> Logged out in=12173 out=351935: 1 Time(s)
>> Logged out in=1272 out=27883: 1 Time(s)
>> Logged out in=1303 out=25234: 1 Time(s)
>> Logged out in=1337 out=25064: 1 Time(s)
>> Logged out in=1419 out=30466: 1 Time(s)
>> Logged out in=1527 out=13360: 1 Time(s)
>> [...]
>
> Now, the way those entries are showing up in the syslog looks like this:
>
>> Aug 11 09:12:48 janet dovecot: imap({username}): Disconnected: Logged out in=1714 out=32525
>> Aug 11 09:56:55 janet dovecot: imap({username}): Disconnected: Logged out in=2348 out=48815
>> Aug 11 13:06:15 janet dovecot: imap({username}): Disconnected: Logged out in=2566 out=44455
>> [...]
>
> "{username}" is just me blanking out the username that appeared there. :-)
>
> Now, for the topper, here's what's in /etc/logwatch/conf/ignore.conf:
>
>> dovecot: .*Connection closed in=
>> dovecot: .*Logged out in=
>> dovecot: .*Disconnected for inactivity in=
>
> So, the $64,000 question is: Why are those entries showing up in the
> report?? What am I missing here? :-)
>
> (It's all the "logged out" messages I'm trying to ignore.)
Ok, upon further searching around, I think I found the problem. It
looks like the config file location for the program moved somewhere
along the way. It's no longer using /etc/logwatch (I *thought* that
directory seemed kinda empty other than my lone ignore.conf file which
had been there; it probably didn't get removed because it knew I had
modified the file), but is now in /usr/share/logwatch/default.config.
Which strikes me as a rather strange place to put config files.... I'll
put my entries in the ignore.conf file there and see if that takes care
of it.
--Dave
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