[Logcheck-devel] Bug#376106: idea: interpolation in filter files

[martin f krafft]

Package: logcheck
Severity: wishlist

Since logcheck processes all filter files anyway (instead of just
feeding them to egrep -f), the following may be trivial to
implement:

It would be nice if logcheck filter files would honour variables,
e.g.:

  # LEAD=^\w{3} [ :[:digit:]]{11} [-._[:alnum:]]+
  # PROCNAME_SMTPD=postfix/smtpd\[[[:digit:]]+\]
  # QUEUEID=(NOQUEUE|[[:upper:][:digit:]]+)
  # IP=([:digit:]{1,3}\.){3}[:digit:]{1,3}

  @LEAD@ @PROCNAME_SMTPD@: $QUEUEID@: reject: RCPT from @HOSTNAME@\[@IP@\] ...

Then, it would also make sense to define a default LEAD, or default
matches for IP addresses and hostnames etc, which can be overridden.

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