[Logcheck-devel] Bug#437886: logcheck-database: violations.ignore rule for postfix's SASL auth failure does not match

[Frédéric Brière]

Package: logcheck-database
Version: 1.2.54
Severity: normal

violations.ignore.d/logcheck-postfix includes the following rule:

  ^\w{3} [ :[:digit:]]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ postfix/smtpd\[[[:digit:]]+\]: warning: [-._[:alnum:]]+\[[.[:digit:]]+\]: SASL (LOGIN|PLAIN|(DIGEST|CRAM)-MD5|APOP) authentication failed:?$


The trailing ":?$" appears to be in error, as the ":" would imply some
additional text that would not be matched.  (Indeed, all such warnings
are "authentication failed: authentication failure" in my case.  And no,
I don't know who came up with that wording.  <g>)

I would think that "(:.*)?$" would be more useful, or, if we put on our
paranoid hats, "(: authentication failure)?$".


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash