[Logcheck-commits] CVS logcheck/docs

[CVS User maks-guest]

Update of /cvsroot/logcheck/logcheck/docs
In directory haydn:/tmp/cvs-serv21627/docs

Modified Files:
	README.logcheck-database 
Log Message:

small docu update, please proof read. :)


--- /cvsroot/logcheck/logcheck/docs/README.logcheck-database	2004/04/27 08:12:29	1.2
+++ /cvsroot/logcheck/logcheck/docs/README.logcheck-database	2004/09/28 15:40:30	1.3
@@ -155,6 +155,11 @@
 hostnames explicitly - hence "oempc" above, rather than the pattern
 "[._[:alnum:]-]+".
 
+A quick test for a new rule would be to grep aboves regex against
+its logfile, but it is safer to remove any trailing space before:
+sed -e 's/ *$//' /var/log/syslog | egrep \
+'^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} oempc wwwoffled\[[0-9]+\]: WWWOFFLE (On|Off)line\.$'
+
 Pass all rules files through "sort -u" to simplify maintenance, then
 ensure they have a final end-of-line carriage return so that they
 "cat" nicely.  Since System Events aren't subdivided by package, it