MailScanner and Logwatch

[Alex Neuman]

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Thanks... I'll look into it right away...

Ryan Pitt wrote:
> Sure...I added the line
> "Logging message" (without the quotes ;-)) to /etc/log.d/ignore.conf
> Which resulted in "3415 Ignored Lines" for me in Logwatch yesterday.
>
> Quoted from ignore.conf documentation....
> "Simply cut and paste as much of the line as needed below be warned 
> that it is possible to really limit your reports by placing a bad 
> value below.
> BAD EXAMPLE: putting a single "." alone on a line will filter all output"
>
> Also, I noticed that YUM did not update the package for me and found 
> that a much later version of Logwatch was available in rpm format from 
> their web site.
> http://www2.logwatch.org:8080/tabs/download/
>
> Have fun!
>
> Ryan
>
> Alex Neuman wrote:
>> Any examples? :)
>>
>> Ryan Pitt wrote:
>>
>>> I use Logwatch also - and have found that you can have Logwatch 
>>> *ignore* certain strings.  Its quite simple to do.
>>> Add the desired string to /etc/log.d/ignore.conf (Fedora Core 1) and 
>>> Logwatch will output a single line ie.  "3415 Ignored Lines" in 
>>> place of the usual long output.
>>> Hope this helps.
>>> Ryan
>>>
>>> Julian Field wrote:
>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Not currently, no.
>>>>
>>>> On 6 Oct 2005, at 13:55, Rose, Bobby wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Recently, we've migrated our gateway from Solaris to Linux and  
>>>>> before I
>>>>> go munging the script/confs is there a simple switch to disable the
>>>>> reporting of unmatched entries for MailScanner?
>>>>
>>>>
>
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