[Logcheck-devel] where to submit new logcheck rules?
martin f krafft
madduck at debian.org
Wed Feb 11 15:25:58 UTC 2009
also sprach Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs at uvt.nl> [2009.02.11.1539 +0100]:
> However, that doesn't work because of course I don't have all the
> packages I use on my network installed on my loghost. In fact,
> I believe that usually the default is that the loghost doesn't do
> (many) other tasks than logging and logcheck, so those per-package
> shipped files do never end up on the loghost.
logcheck is not designed for loghosts.
> How are these files supposed to end up on the loghost? Or would it
> be better if all ignore.d files would be shipped inside the
> logcheck-database package?
Having all of the in logcheck-database just results in massive piles
of unmaintainable regexps, as is the status quo. logcheck-database
just exists, because maintainers are lazy and don't do the
maintenance themselves, maybe because logcheck isn't considered
a standard. It would be nice if it were, but I cannot really vouch
for the current implementation (and the ruleset), which is really
just a huge pile of dung.
So, to answer your question: provide them in the package if
possible, or tell me to add you as committer to logcheck-database,
add them, and make a release.
And then rewrite logcheck properly, or at least implement a way to
reuse common patterns in the rulefiles. :)
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