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regarding logcheck: ignore "last line repeated $n times" if prevline matched
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Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.53
Severity: wishlist
I (think I) want to see how many times the messages I care about are
repeated. This means I can't ignore "last line repeated $n times"
messages (obviously). But since those can also occur after messages
that are ignored, I can't _not_ ignore them either. So, I lose.
I can see two solutions: one is to add a new config option; the other
is replacing the current set-of-regular-expressions with sed scripts.
Although the sed script solution is potentially more general, I have a
problem when logchecking units _start_with_ "last line repeated...";
in order to solve this, one could imagine instructing logcheck to move
lines between logchecking units. But then logcheck quickly becomes
more ad-hoc than if you just add a config option. I'd think.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to
en_GB.ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii adduser 3.102 Add and remove users and groups
ii cron 3.0pl1-100 management of regular background p
ii debconf 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii exim4 4.63-17 metapackage to ease exim MTA (v4)
ii exim4-daemon-lig 4.63-17 lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon
ii grep 2.5.1.ds2-6 GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
ii lockfile-progs 0.1.10 Programs for locking and unlocking
ii logtail 1.2.53 Print log file lines that have not
ii mailx 1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent
ii sysklogd [system 1.4.1-18 System Logging Daemon
Versions of packages logcheck recommends:
pn logcheck-database <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 22:34:08 +0100 Richard Lewis
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:29:38 +0100 Jonas Koelker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I (think I) want to see how many times the messages I care about are
> > repeated. This means I can't ignore "last line repeated $n times"
> > messages (obviously). But since those can also occur after messages
> > that are ignored, I can't _not_ ignore them either. So, I lose.
> >
>
> rsyslog has disabled the "feature" which produces this message, see
> https://www.rsyslog.com/doc/configuration/action/rsconf1_repeatedmsgreduction.html
>
> so this bug from 2007 can, i think, be closed.
A month later: closing
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