also sprach Frédéric Brière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.03.15.2030 +0100]: > Maybe it's time to raise, as you once did yourself, the proposal > of moving rules back into their respective packages.
It won't happen. The other maintainers don't care, at large. > So, what would you think about testing the waters by contacting > a small sample of maintainers, and tentatively passing the baton > for a few packages at first? I am fine with you trying it. It'll have to be small steps anyway. > * Given the recent emptying of violations.d/logcheck, do we agree that > violation-level messages will henceforth be triggered and handled by > individual packages only? (IOW, maintainters don't have to worry > about filtering violations from other packages, including logcheck.) Sounds good. > * Shouldn't we do some cleanup on rules before passing them on? > There are many discrepancies in there (ie. [[:digit:]] vs. [0-9]), > and I'd bet that 90% of address patterns won't match IPv6. Trying > to fix those after they have been scattered will likely be > painful. Instead of doing a cleanup, we ought to implement a macro system so that I can just say %IP% when I want to match an IP. I've written some mockup code for this and if you want, you could integrate it into logcheck. > * There should ideally be a central reference point for > maintainers, with documentation on both syntax (how to write good > rules) and semantics (where to put them), as well as how to manage > the transfer from logcheck to their package, where to ask for > help, etc. I can set up ikiwiki for logcheck.org in a few minutes, if you think it would profit of that. Right now, logcheck.org has some HTML and there is also a wiki, and I find that somewhat suboptimal (and hate the moin wiki...) -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. it looks so calculating." -- oscar wilde
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