I have installed Charlie Brady's logcheck-1.1.1-1.i386.rpm from
http://www.e-smith.org/contrib/rpm-index/RPM-logcheck-1.1.1-1.i386.html
and it works very well, but I wonder if anyone else has experienced this
same "problem":

In the mails generated to the administrator, I get perfectly normal
events listed such as


<SNIP>
Unusual System Events
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Sep  7 09:08:51 mail xinetd[1409]: START: smtp pid=2665 from=
Sep  7 09:11:40 mail xinetd[1409]: START: smtp pid=2686 from=
Sep  7 09:14:56 mail xinetd[1409]: START: smtp pid=2713 from=
Sep  7 09:15:56 mail xinetd[1409]: START: smtp pid=2720 from=
Sep  7 09:16:16 mail xinetd[1409]: START: smtp pid=2727 from=
Sep  7 09:20:32 mail xinetd[1409]: START: smtp pid=2736 from=
Sep  7 09:21:20 mail xinetd[1409]: START: smtp pid=2743 from=
Sep  7 09:23:19 mail xinetd[1409]: START: smtp pid=2750 from=
Sep  7 09:32:39 mail xinetd[1409]: START: smtp pid=2759 from=
<SNIP>

(all IP numbers in the "from" field are normal private numbers from our
LAN)

Furtermore, I gat long listings such as:



Sep  7 09:08:51 mail smtpd[2665]: mail from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sep  7 09:08:51 mail smtpd[2665]: smtp connection from
[EMAIL PROTECTED](192.6.1.151) MAIL FROM:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RCPT TO:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, allowed by line 23 of /etc/smtpd_check_rules
Sep  7 09:08:51 mail smtpd[2665]: Recipient <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sep  7 09:08:51 mail smtpd[2665]: smtp connection from
[EMAIL PROTECTED](192.6.1.151) MAIL FROM:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RCPT TO:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, allowed by line 23 of
/etc/smtpd_check_rules

(Where "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" are normal user addresses belonging to our
LAN.....)


As far as I understand, the rules are set in:

/etc/logcheck/logcheck.hacking
/etc/logcheck/logcheck.ignore
/etc/logcheck/logcheck.violations
/etc/logcheck/logcheck.violations.ignore


In the file /etc/logcheck/logcheck.ignore there are lines such as

sendmail.*User Unknown
sendmail.*User Unknown
sendmail.*alias database.*rebuilt
sendmail.*aliases.*longest
sendmail.*from=
sendmail.*lost input channel
sendmail.*message-id=
sendmail.*putoutmsg
sendmail.*return to sender
sendmail.*return to sender
sendmail.*stat=
sendmail.*timeout waiting

..but obviously nothing that ignores things like 

"mail from..."
or 
"smtp connection from..."

I really would like to force logcheck to ignore those, but how should I
proceed and with what syntax?

Shouldn't all those lines beginning with "sendmail" be replaced with
something more suitable for E-Smith?

Anyone who knows? 
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