[Logcheck-devel] Bug#296017: logcheck: ignore.d.server pure-ftpd user with trailing whitespace

[Ingo Theiss]

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.34
Severity: normal

the patterns for pure-ftpd in ignore.d.server are not matching a user
with a trailing whitespace. here a some examples:

Feb 18 13:02:33 web1 pure-ftpd: (stupid-pure-ftpd @84.56.131.73) [NOTICE]
/example/example.txt downloaded  (5908 bytes, 152196.03KB/sec)

Feb 18 13:16:14 web1 pure-ftpd: (stupid-pure-ftpd @84.56.131.73) [INFO]
Logout.

every rule is affected!

i have replaces the real username with 'stupid-pure-ftpd'. the trailing
whitespace seems to be a bug from  pure-ftpd. the user has definitely no
trailing whitespace, but pure-ftpd sometimes logs messages with a
trailing whitespace.

those behaviours lead to a previous question: why not providing a single
pattern which matches [INFO] and [NOTICE]. it's a pain for you the
maintainer(s) an the users to report every single exeption. what if
pure-ftpd changes it's behaviour in the next release? we have to start
over and over again to keep the patterns at a usable state. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser          3.59                    Add and remove users and groups
ii  cron             3.0pl1-86               management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf 1.4.30.11               Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils      2.8.4                   Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  exim4-daemon-hea 4.34-10                 Exim (v4) with extended features, 
ii  lockfile-progs   0.1.10                  Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logcheck-databas 1.2.34                  A database of system log rules for
ii  logtail          1.2.34                  Print log file lines that have not
ii  mailx            1:8.1.2-0.20040524cvs-4 A simple mail user agent
ii  sysklogd [system 1.4.1-16                System Logging Daemon

-- debconf information:
  logcheck/changes:
* logcheck/install-note: