Hi, does the patch really work for you? I'm surprised because you used \S which means "all non-whitespace characters", but I think you intended otherwise.
Willi Am 26.08.18 um 14:44 schrieb Reco: > Package: logwatch > Version: 7.4.3+git20161207-2 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > Perl script /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/mdadm provided by > logwatch package uses faulty regex (^ARRAY) to parse > /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf. > Said regex does not take into the account the possibiliy of excluding > md array from the kernel by using "ARRAY <ignore>" as outlined at > mdadm.conf(5). > The script does not even try to validate parsed device names, and feeds > them to this line: > > open(MDADM,"mdadm --misc --detail $dev 2>&1 |"); > > which in turn invokes /bin/sh -c "mdadm --misc --detail <ignore> 2>&1" > Which, of course, fails with "redirection unexpected". > > Suggested fix is attached to this bug report. > > Sincerely yours, Reco > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 9.5 > APT prefers stable-updates > APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), > LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > Versions of packages logwatch depends on: > ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.89-2+deb9u3 > ii perl 5.24.1-3+deb9u4 > > Versions of packages logwatch recommends: > ii libdate-manip-perl 6.57-1 > pn libsys-cpu-perl <none> > pn libsys-meminfo-perl <none> > > Versions of packages logwatch suggests: > ii fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-7+b1 > > -- Configuration Files: > /etc/cron.daily/00logwatch > > -- no debconf information >