[Logcheck-devel] Bug#295560: logcheck: Please include filename when reporting "invalid regular expression"

[Frank Küster]

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.34
Severity: wishlist

I have a couple of home-made logcheck ignore files, and happened to
have one unescaped (and unmatched) `(' in one of the filter
lines. Because of this, cron sent a mail with the body "grep: Invalid
regular expression" - the subject is the command in the "2 * * * *"
line in /etc/cron.d/logcheck, of course.

It would be nice if logcheck would tell me in which file the error
was. This should be easy, since egrep returns 1 if it finds no match
and 2 with an invalid regular expression.

Regards, Frank



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27
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-2.0]         1.4.30.11  Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.8.4      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  exim [mail-transport-agent]   3.36-13    An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
ii  lockfile-progs                0.1.10     Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logcheck-database             1.2.34     A database of system log rules for
ii  logtail                       1.2.34     Print log file lines that have not
ii  mailutils [mailx]             1:0.6-2    GNU mailutils utilities for handli
ii  sysklogd [system-log-daemon]  1.4.1-16   System Logging Daemon

-- debconf information:
* logcheck/auto_create_logfiles: true
  logcheck/upgrade-note:
* logcheck/changes:
* logcheck/install-note:
* logcheck/email_address: root at localhost