Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:55:12AM +0000, s. keeling wrote: > > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > I've tried logcheck first and when I couldn't get it to do what I want I > > > tried logwatch. It has an ignore file that it says to just cut and
Ah, crap. Sorry for misreading that. > Why doesn't someone make a companion interactive rule maker? Run it in i) This is free software. Go right ahead. :-) Some of the neatest stuff came into being because someone felt an itch they couldn't scratch. It's probably a very difficult problem to solve, though. ii) Unix-ish OSs have a steep learning curve. The curve pays off with extraordinary power. Regular expressions aren't difficult to master. The biggest problem I've found with them is subsets of them. Shell RE's, perl RE's, awk, ... Some work in all of them, some work in only one of them, some work differently in each. It can be confusing, but it's really not that hard. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. Spammers! http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling/emails.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]