Package: logcheck Version: 1.4.1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
The change for #1025719 broke logcheck massively.
I've extensivly tuned logcheck files which nicely filter out lots of
messages (see statistics at the end).
Now I see them all again (only those comming from the journal).
I don't see any information what I should do for migration.
Let's use a trivial example. The following harmless message is emitted
by courier to the journal:
Feb 22 16:37:40 meinfjell courierd[401638]: Installing uucp
In syslog this is:
syslog:2023-02-22T14:37:40.491690+00:00 meinfjell courierd: Installing uucp
I have the following in
/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server:
meinfjell courierd: Initializing uucp
As you can see, the message from the journal is slightly different
than from syslog, breaking tons of rules.
If such a feature is introduced, it should definitely have a switch so
that admins can decide when to change (requires adapting many rules).
Filtering both looks very impractical.
For statistics:
On my local system, I have 11396 lines of rules, on my server system
currently 2721 (I'm in the processing of setting this up, so this will
grow).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.1.9 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to de_DE.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages logcheck depends on:
ii adduser 3.131
ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-156
ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.96-14
ii lockfile-progs 0.1.19
ii logtail 1.4.1
ii mime-construct 1.12+really1.11-1
Versions of packages logcheck recommends:
ii logcheck-database 1.4.1
Versions of packages logcheck suggests:
ii rsyslog [system-log-daemon] 8.2212.0-1
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/logcheck/header.txt [Errno 13] Keine Berechtigung:
'/etc/logcheck/header.txt'
/etc/logcheck/logcheck.conf [Errno 13] Keine Berechtigung:
'/etc/logcheck/logcheck.conf'
/etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles [Errno 13] Keine Berechtigung:
'/etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles'
/etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles.d/journal.logfiles [Errno 13] Keine
Berechtigung: '/etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles.d/journal.logfiles'
/etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles.d/syslog.logfiles [Errno 13] Keine
Berechtigung: '/etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles.d/syslog.logfiles'
-- no debconf information
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