[hobbit] a tiny logfile problem

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Wed Aug 23 23:01:35 CEST 2006


On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 12:39:35PM +0200, Kolbjørn Barmen wrote:
> 
> Due to the nature of the LOG entries in client-local.cfg I keep getting
> red dots evey now and then.
> 
> [linux]
> log:/var/log/messages:10240
> ignore MARK
> 
> The number 10240 is the MAXDATA in bytes that will be cheked.
> The problem is that this results in uncomplete lines, and hence my IGNORE
> patterns does not always apply.

The idea was that logfetch should report only complete lines. I don't
know quite where that broke, but I will look into it. It looks like it
is a problem only when the maximum amount of logfile data is reached.


Regards,
Henrik




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