[Logcheck-devel] Re: so, about preprocessing... (#376106)

[martin f krafft]

also sprach martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org> [2006.07.04.0052 +0200]:
>   @LEAD@ @PROC_SMTP@: @QUEUE_ID@: @TO@, relay=@DNIP@, @DELAY@,
>     @DSNS@, status=deliverable \(@SMTP_SSTATUS@ recipient @EMAIL@
>     ok\)@EOL@

I just noticed
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=logcheck-devel&m=114076370327806&w=2

and the fact that Eric Evans already had this idea a year before me.
I apologise for not having done my research, at least we have two
implementations now (and we both use @VAR@ syntax).

Anyway there's one difference: Eric proposes to compile rules files,
I propose to parse rules at run-time. If I look at

>   ^[[:upper:]][[:alpha:]]{2} ([[:digit:]]{2}| [[:digit:]])
>   ([[:digit:]]{2}:){2}[[:digit:]]{2} seamus
>   postfix/smtp\[[[:digit:]]{1,5}\]: (NOQUEUE|[A-F[:digit:]]+):
>   to=<([-_.+=[:alnum:]]+@[-_.[:alnum:]]+|[[:alnum:]]+)>(,
>   orig_to=<([-_.+=[:alnum:]]+@[-_.[:alnum:]]+|[[:alnum:]]+)>)?,
>   relay=([-_.[:alnum:]]+|([[:digit:]]{1,3}\.){3}[[:digit:]]{1,3}|unknown)\[([[:digit:]]{1,3}\.){3}[[:digit:]]{1,3}\](:[[:digit:]]{1,5})?,
>   delay=[[:digit:]]+(\.[[:digit:]]+)?,
>   delays=([[:digit:]]+(\.[[:digit:]]+)?/){3}[[:digit:]]+(\.[[:digit:]]+)?,
>   dsn=2\.[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+, status=deliverable
>   \(2[[:digit:]]{2} recipient
>   <([-_.+=[:alnum:]]+@[-_.[:alnum:]]+|[[:alnum:]]+)> ok\)$

then I am moderately sure that a user or even our humble selfs will
prefer to read the more abstract variable-using syntax instead.

I am really in favour of this and would start to implement run-time
translation as soon as I hear people who're also in favour.

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