[Logcheck-devel] Bug#279635: logcheck: empty line in `local' file is copied to egrep pattern file

[Jim Meyering]

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.30
Severity: important

With the installation of logcheck-1.2.30, I started getting hundreds
of lines of messages every hour.  The problem was that
I had a blank line in violations.d/local.
Of course, I shouldn't have had a blank line in the file
in the first place.

Here's a patch that fixed it:

--- /usr/sbin/logcheck.~5~	2004-11-04 10:04:55.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/sbin/logcheck	2004-11-04 10:30:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@
 mkdir $TMPDIR/logoutput \
     || error "Could not mkdir for log files"
 if [ ! $LOGFILE ]; then
-    for file in $(egrep --text -v "(^#|^[[:space:]]\+$)" $LOGFILES_LIST); do
+    for file in $(egrep --text -v "(^#|^[[:space:]]*$)" $LOGFILES_LIST); do
 	logoutput "$file"
     done 
 elif [ $LOGFILE ]; then

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9jmm
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser          3.59                    Add and remove users and groups
ii  cron             3.0pl1-86               management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf 1.4.39                  Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils      2.10.3                  Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  lockfile-progs   0.1.10                  Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logcheck-databas 1.2.30                  A database of system log rules for
ii  logtail          1.2.30                  Print log file lines that have not
ii  mailx            1:8.1.2-0.20040524cvs-1 A simple mail user agent
ii  perl             5.8.4-3                 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  postfix [mail-tr 2.1.5-1                 A high-performance mail transport 
ii  sysklogd [system 1.4.1-15                System Logging Daemon

-- debconf information:
  logcheck/security_level: workstation
  logcheck/manage_conffiles: true
  logcheck/upgrade-note:
* logcheck/noroot:
* logcheck/changes:
* logcheck/install-note:
  logcheck/email_address: root
  logcheck/rewrite-note: