Bug#254542: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#254542: rng-tools: Bad non-error message [PATCH]

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, maks attems wrote:
> tags 254542 pending 
> thanks
> 
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote:
> 
> ..
> > I should have read the logcheck documentation more carefully before
> > filing the bug. I didn't want to start a controversy...
> > 
> > Anyway, here is a way in which you can fix the problem.
> > 
> > Add a file called (say /etc/logcheck/violations.ignore.d/rng-tools)
> > which contains the line
> > 
> > ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ rngd: stats: FIPS 140-2 failures: 0$
> > 
> > According to the logcheck documentation, the directory
> > viloations.ignore.d refers to lines that would match entries in
> > violations.d but nevertheless need to be ignored.
> > 
> > I have created the entry in a way that *only* 0 failures for FIPS tests
> > are matched, you may want to create something more general.
> 
> thanks for reassiging the bug and this above rule, i added to logcheck cvs
> the new oneliner for the new file 'violations.ignore.d/logcheck-rgnd':
> ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ rngd: stats: FIPS 140-2 failures: [0-9]$

Well, if there is a need to keep the "violations.d" stuff overriding the
usual ignore.d, I could add the violatations.ignore.d line myself to the
rng-tools package, but I feel like this is a run-around-my-own-tail problem,
since I have already ignored these log lines in the proper place, and I will
have to add the violations.ignore regexps without knowing WHAT the
violations are (in which case, I will simply duplicate the ignore.d file
into the violations.d.ignore dir).

This really looks to me like a workaround asking for trouble. Is there a
real good reason to have violations override the ignore.d regexps?  If so,
is there a damn real good reason to have anything in the violation regexps
(as opposed as letting the local admin add them)?

I mean, I should not have to add such an ugly thing into a package, in order
to get logcheck to behave (by _default_).

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