On 08/12/17 16:55, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm generally a happy user of logcheck, but it makes a lot of noise at > boot time, from kernel messages and startup scripts. > > There are two problems with this: Firstly, it's a lot of work to go > through and create filters for just me - I started once, and gave up. > Secondly, I don't actually know, necessarily, which lines are normal, > which bits change normally and should be wildcarded, and which bits I > should actually be worried about. > > Has there been any effort to create filters for this? Maybe they could > be provided by the kernel-image package? > > Or are there alternatives to logcheck that deal with this better? > > This has especially become a problem since I now have a server that only > runs part time (it's in my study, it's loud, noisy and generates heat, > and only does backups of remote systems at night, so I've set it up with > a wake-on-lan cronjob), so it produces these messages every day. > Actually two sets, because it's a VM, and the host obviously shuts down too. Nobody else uses logcheck? Everyone is fine with how it works? Or am I asking badly? Or is it just too hard :-) Richard
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