[Logcheck-devel] Bug#277636: more...

[Jamie L. Penman-Smithson]

Hi Simon,

> Assuming that you are trying to write regexps for every message
> routinely output by dnsmasq, then you need to add ones of the form
> dnsmasq[1721]: DHCPACK(eth2) 192.168.1.136 00:20:e0:5e:1d:d8 toffee
> too, for people using the DHCP server part.
>
> The first part is
> DHCPDISCOVER|DHCPOFFER|DHCPREQUEST|DHCPACK|DHCPRELEASE|
> DHCPINFO|BOOTP|DHCPNAK|DHCPDECLINE
>
> The last two indicate potential problems, and might be left out
> depending on what your policy is.

I've left out DHCPNAK and DHCPDECLINE on the basis that I think you'd want
to be warned if something was going wrong with your DHCP server.

This has been fixed in the CVS version of logcheck. Thanks for the
descriptive bug report!

-j