On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:39:41PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:18:17PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 11:52:15AM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > > > > > I find the documentation of logcheck to confusing. > > Me too. I just spent a lot of time staring at the source and > submitted a patch with much expanded documentation: see bug 215640.
I've browsed it, I'll have a look at it asap. > Are you saying the messages are getting flagged despite the above > setttings? Yes. > That might also happen if some other patterns in > cracking.d or violations.d are picking them out. In particular, if > logcheck (the pattern file, not the program) is picking them out, you > need to disable it with logcheck-postfix or a local or local-* file > (logcheck-postfix will only ignore patterns found for the "logcheck" > file, while local* affects everything. No entries in cracking.d and no relevant ones in violantions. I now have this: schamper:/etc/logcheck# grep -r postfix * ignore.d/postfix:postfix.* ignore.d.paranoid/postfix:postfix.* ignore.d.server/postfix:postfix.* ignore.d.workstation/postfix:postfix.* That are the only files that have someting about postfix in them. Every file has postfix.* in it. > > What severity are your error reports, i.e., what is the message before > the section in which they appear? That indicates whether they are > from a pattern in cracking.d ("Security Alerts"), violations.d > ("Security Violations"), or just the residual unrecognized "System > Events". The severity is 'Possible Security Violations': e.g.: Oct 18 16:21:56 schamper postfix/cleanup[18573]: 0C40D5150: reject: header Subject: dont dare to intimate bcos of ur bro too little? oboebefell; from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: SecuritySage SPAM-ID: h20030701-45001 Your email had spam-like header contents. To report this message as non-spam, please follow the instructions available at http://www.securitysage.com/spam.html Because I put "postfix.*" in those files, it should discard everything of postfix, right? Thanks in advance -- Rudy Gevaert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web page http://www.webworm.org Schamper sysadmin http://www.schamper.ugent.be GNU/Linux user and Savannah hacker http://savannah.gnu.org Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. - Thomas Jones -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]