Wishlist: ignore rules for logcheck, see attached proposal

[Stefan Kangas]

Binary package hint: network-manager-gnome

Attached is a set of rules for logcheck that enables it to filter boring messages from network-manager-gnome. The rules are suitable for a workstation and are meant to go in the file /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.workstation/network-gnome-manager

I didn't bother splitting the rules up and making an /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server version, since it doesn't make sense using gnome on a server anyway. I guess some people might want to run the server setting on their workstation; logcheck does allow for that. If someone was so inclined, s/he could move some of the regexps from /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.workstation/network-gnome-manager to /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/network-gnome-manager.

I am currently using these rules to reduce the amount of noise logcheck sends me from my laptop. While there surely is room for improvement, the rules seem to be doing their job pretty well.

Please note the rule set sent to Launchpad includes an Ubuntu-specific line (yeah, it's the one where the logs refer to launchpad bug #191889). I'm also sending a version of this to Debian GNU/Linux for review but, naturally, I'll be excluding that line.

Please consider this for inclusion. Thanks.

Regards,
Stefan Kangas

Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

network-manager-gnome:
  Installed: 0.7.1~rc4.1-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.7.1~rc4.1-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.7.1~rc4.1-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status