I know there is a way to ignore certain files.  Is there a way to ignore
certain errors?  For example I put ossec on our mail server which is
running dspam.  In /var/log/syslog  we get a lot of these type of errors


dspam[20881]: [ID 795625 mail.warning] process_message returned error
-5.  delivering message.


that ossec is picking up on and sending to me via e-mail.  After a
couple of hundred of those a day for a few days... the whole thing
starts to become pointless.

The whole message looks like this.

OSSEC HIDS Notification.
2006 Oct 09 07:09:27

Received From: unknown->/var/log/syslog
Rule: 1002 fired (level 7) -> "Unknown problem somewhere in the system."
Portion of the log(s):

dspam[20881]: [ID 795625 mail.warning] process_message returned error
-5.  delivering message.



 --END OF NOTIFICATION



I suppose I could set it to either ignore syslog or to not fire off a
message unless the alert level is 8, but those seem a bit drastic. Is
there another way?




-- 
Brian Avis
SEARHC Medical Clinic
Juneau, AK 99801
(907) 463-4049
Have a nice diurnal anomaly!

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