[Logcheck-devel] Bug#602494: logcheck runs filters for packages not installed

[Arthur Marsh]

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.3.13
Severity: normal


Hi, at present my logcheck is into 33 minutes of cpu time for
running the ignore/innd rule, when the innd package is not installed.

If running logcheck against only locally created logfiles, there should
be a configuration option to only run logcheck against installed (or
non-purged) packages.

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.36-git6 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112+nmu1 add and remove users and groups
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-115 process scheduling daemon
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.72-2     lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii  lockfile-progs                0.1.15     Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logtail                       1.3.13     Print log file lines that have not
ii  mime-construct                1.11       construct/send MIME messages from 
ii  sysklogd [system-log-daemon]  1.5-6      System Logging Daemon

Versions of packages logcheck recommends:
ii  logcheck-database             1.3.13     database of system log rules for t

Versions of packages logcheck suggests:
ii  syslog-summary                1.14-2     summarize the contents of a syslog

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/cron.d/logcheck changed:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
@reboot         logcheck    if [ -x /usr/sbin/logcheck ]; then ionice -c3 nice -n5 /usr/sbin/logcheck -R; fi
2 * * * *       logcheck    if [ -x /usr/sbin/logcheck ]; then ionice -c3 nice -n5 /usr/sbin/logcheck; fi

/etc/logcheck/logcheck.conf [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/logcheck/logcheck.conf'
/etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles'

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