[Logcheck-devel] Bug#355383: logcheck: Should ignore backup files in .d dirs

[Johan Walles]

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.43a
Severity: wishlist


I just got this e-mail from logcheck:

"
Security Events for su~
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
...
"

Note the tilde in the "su~".  It comes from here:
"
foo:/etc/logcheck/violations.d# ls *
logcheck  su  su~  sudo  su.dpkg-old
"

The su~ file is obviously a backup file created by Emacs or whatever from when I've 
been editing the "su" file.

I'd like logcheck to ignore backup files (files with names ending in ~) when it does 
its thing.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=sv_SE, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser          3.80                    Add and remove users and groups
ii  cron             3.0pl1-92               management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf 1.4.70                  Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils      2.15.2                  Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  exim [mail-trans 3.36-18                 An MTA (Mail Transport Agent)
ii  grep             2.5.1.ds2-4             GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
ii  lockfile-progs   0.1.10                  Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logcheck-databas 1.2.43a                 database of system log rules for t
ii  logtail          1.2.43a                 Print log file lines that have not
ii  mailx            1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent
ii  sysklogd [system 1.4.1-17                System Logging Daemon

logcheck recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* logcheck/security_level: server
* logcheck/manage_conffiles: true
* logcheck/auto_create_logfiles: true
* logcheck/upgrade-note:
* logcheck/changes:
* logcheck/install-note:
* logcheck/rules-directories-note:
* logcheck/email_address: root
* logcheck/rewrite-note: