[Logcheck-devel] Bug#278337: Acknowledgement (logcheck: perdition adds extra spaces on SOME syslog messages)

[Gerfried Fuchs]

* brendon at brendon.com [2004-10-26 01:54]:
> So, ignore my previous post. Don't change the logcheck rule. Patch
> logcheck. Here is a solution that works.
> 
> 632c632
> < $SORT $TMPDIR/logoutput/* | sed -e 's/[[:space:]]+$//' | cat  \
> ---
> > $SORT $TMPDIR/logoutput/* | sed -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' | cat  \

 The solution is though a solution in the wrong direction, I fixed it
correctly:

> > $SORT $TMPDIR/logoutput/* | sed -e 's/[[:space:]]\+$//' | cat  \

 The + must be escaped to work the way intended. I fixed that occurence
the other two times it appears in the file, too.

 So long,
Alfie
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