[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#602336: Bug#602336: puppet-common: please include the following logcheck ignore rules

[Hanspeter Kunz]

On Wed, 2010-11-03 at 15:32 -0700, Nigel Kersten wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Hanspeter Kunz <hkunz at ifi.uzh.ch> wrote:
> > Package: puppet-common
> > Version: 2.6.2-1
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > it would be great if you could ship the following two rules in /etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/puppet-common:
> >
> > ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ puppet-master\[[0-9]+\]: \(Scope\(Class\[main\]\)\) Configuring [._[:alnum:]-]+ using environment [._[:alnum:]-]+$
> > ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ puppet-master\[[0-9]+\]: Compiled catalog for [._[:alnum:]-]+ in environment [._[:alnum:]-]+ in [.[:digit:]]+ seconds$
> 
> 
> Lots of people use these log lines to gather metrics on compilation
> time and environment count.

sure, there is noting wrong with have those lines in the log.

> Can you elaborate why you think they should be ignored?

my suggestion is, that logcheck should ignore those lines. This will not
affect gathering any metrics.

cheers,
Hp
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