[Logcheck-devel] Bug#440613: logcheck: Logcheck should not show last message repeated X times when the line its referrering to is gone

[Chris Seufert]

Package: logcheck
Version: 1.2.54
Severity: normal


When running logcheck, i get alot of 
Sep  3 14:26:29 fred last message repeated 2 times
Sep  3 14:26:30 fred last message repeated 2 times
Sep  3 14:26:32 fred last message repeated 2 times
Sep  3 14:26:33 fred last message repeated 2 times
Sep  3 14:26:34 fred last message repeated 2 times
type output, this is both rather useless, and a good waste of inbox space (I can get hundeds of these 
sometimes (mainly due to ftp server)

I had thought about setting up an ignore rule for them, however when they are actually  relevant to a 
line that hasnt been removed, i would loose that info. It would be best, if the line immediately 
proceeding the message repeaded line was 'ignored' then this line should get ignored to, and it should 
be kept when the line above is not ignored.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-023stab033.1-smp
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii  adduser          3.102                   Add and remove users and groups
ii  cron             3.0pl1-100              management of regular background p
ii  debconf          1.5.11                  Debian configuration management sy
ii  grep             2.5.1.ds2-6             GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
ii  lockfile-progs   0.1.10                  Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  logtail          1.2.54                  Print log file lines that have not
ii  mailx            1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent
ii  postfix [mail-tr 2.3.8-2+b1              A high-performance mail transport 
ii  sysklogd [system 1.4.1-18                System Logging Daemon

Versions of packages logcheck recommends:
pn  logcheck-database             <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information