Feature in logcheck

[Jamie L. Penman-Smithson]

On 8 Feb 2006, at 20:33, Ondrej Sury wrote:
> Argh, just found error^H^H^H^H^Hfeature in logcheck after several days
> of hair ripping why my rules doesn't work.
>
> logcheck (at least in version 1.2.40) doesn't accept rules which  
> has dot
> '.' in name like in cyrus2.2, so our precious logcheck rules are
> completely ignored.  So we need to rename our rules to cyrus2_2,  
> and btw
> add file to violations.ignore.d with:
>
> cyrus/lmtpunix\[[0-9]+\]: +IOERROR: fstating sieve
>
> (ERROR is matched by violations.d/logcheck)

The bug is actually in debianutils, logcheck uses run-parts to list  
the contents of directories and run-parts doesn't list filenames with  
a period in them (see bug #350242). As of 1.2.43 logcheck will use  
find instead, which will fix the problem.

-j
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