[hobbit] client-local.cfg: "ignore" ignored?

Dominique Frise Dominique.Frise at unil.ch
Thu May 18 09:28:19 CEST 2006


Dominique Frise wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We have following config. in our server's client-local.cfg:
> 
> ----------
> [mailc]
> log:/var/log/messages:10240
> ignore MailScanner
> ----------
> 
> The /var/log/messages of the "mailc" client is filled up with lines like 
> following that we would like to exclude totally:
> 
> ----------
> May 13 06:26:41 mailc MailScanner[933]: HTML Img tag found in message 
> 1Feli1-0004tG-Dt from dmawllet at hotmail.com
> ----------
> 
> The lines with "MailScanner" of "mailc" client (Debian 2.4.22) are never 
> ignored. I.e. we get -yellow/red- alarms for lines with "MailScanner" 
> tag in it.
> 
> --- some infos from the client ---
> bb at mailc:~$ wc -l /var/log/messages
> 10790 /var/log/messages
> bb at mailc:~$ grep MailScanner /var/log/messages | wc -l
> 10795
> bb at mailc:/soft/pub/BB/hobbit/client/tmp$ cat logfetch.*
> log:/var/log/messages:10240
> ignore MailScanner
> 
> /var/log/messages:1306142:1281851:1252634:1227431:1200018:1156195:1115234
> bb at mailc:/soft/pub/BB/hobbit/client/tmp$
> ---
> 
> What are we doing wrong? (client is running a snapshot of 25th april)
> 
> 
> Dominique
> UNIL - University of Lausanne
> 
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After upgrading the server to the snapshot of 16 may it now works as expected 
:-). (client is still running snapshot of 25 april)


Dominique
UNIL - University of Lausanne



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