[Logcheck-devel] Bug#299810: logcheck: grep errors after latest update

[Richard A Nelson]

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.35
Severity: normal

I'm getting the following on two different Unstable boxen:
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Subject: Cron <logcheck at bandit-hall>    if [ -x /usr/sbin/logcheck ]; then      
    nice -n10 /usr/sbin/logcheck; fi                                            
                                                                                
grep: Invalid regular expression
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I'm still getting *some* reports, but have no clue what I'm now missing
due to the error.

Ahh... this seems to be the culprit:
+ debug 'cleanchecked - dir - /tmp/logcheck.e1vXAf/ignore/ntpdate'
+ '[' 0 -eq 1 ']'
+ egrep --text -v -f /tmp/logcheck.e1vXAf/ignore/ntpdate /tmp/logcheck.e1vXAf/ch
grep: Invalid regular expression

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser          3.63                    Add and remove users and groups
ii  cron             3.0pl1-87               management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf 1.4.46                  Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils      2.13.1                  Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  lockfile-progs   0.1.10                  Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logcheck-databas 1.2.35                  A database of system log rules for
ii  logtail          1.2.35                  Print log file lines that have not
ii  mailx            1:8.1.2-0.20040524cvs-4 A simple mail user agent
ii  sendmail-bin [ma 8.13.3-9                powerful, efficient, and scalable 
ii  sysklogd [system 1.4.1-16                System Logging Daemon

-- debconf information:
  logcheck/changes:
* logcheck/install-note: