On Tue, 27 Sep 2022, 09:27 Stefano Callegari, <ste.calleg...@tiscali.it> wrote:
> I have an email like this every cron > grep: warning: stray \ before ! > grep: warning: stray \ before " > grep: warning: stray \ before " > grep: warning: stray \ before & > grep: warning: stray \ before " > grep: warning: stray \ before " > grep: warning: stray \ before " > > and many more lines. Think this is an issue in the rules shipped by debian - there have been some unwanted backslashes in some rules files for ages, and apparently grep has started warning about these. The rules should only quote things that are special for regular expressions, so +, ., * ( etc, but not other characters The patch in https://salsa.debian.org/debian/logcheck/-/merge_requests/14 should fix these - please review!
