Bug#254542: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#254542: rng-tools: Bad non-error message [PATCH]

Todd Troxell ttroxell at debian.org
Sun Jun 27 06:46:04 UTC 2004


Henrique,

You're right.  This doesn't make sense.  I would rather wait until post-sarge
to alter this behavior as we're also planning some changes to the directory
structure at that time, so for the moment, please copy the stuff to
violations.d.ignore.

Also, I think that having things like "denied" in violations by default is
important because these types of events COMMONLY indicate potential security
issues.

Unless there are objections, I will retitle this "Change violations.d
override" and postpone the fix until post-sarge.

Thanks

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 12:42:28PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Well, if there is a need to keep the "violations.d" stuff overriding the
> usual ignore.d, I could add the violatations.ignore.d line myself to the
> rng-tools package, but I feel like this is a run-around-my-own-tail problem,
> since I have already ignored these log lines in the proper place, and I will
> have to add the violations.ignore regexps without knowing WHAT the
> violations are (in which case, I will simply duplicate the ignore.d file
> into the violations.d.ignore dir).
> 
> This really looks to me like a workaround asking for trouble. Is there a
> real good reason to have violations override the ignore.d regexps?  If so,
> is there a damn real good reason to have anything in the violation regexps
> (as opposed as letting the local admin add them)?
> 
> I mean, I should not have to add such an ugly thing into a package, in order
> to get logcheck to behave (by _default_).

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