On Sun, 20 Jan 2019 15:50:55 +0530 Charles Atkinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Please consider introducing wildcards into the paths in the .logfiles > configuration files. Perhaps similar to the way they are used in logrotate's > paths. > A use case is when using logcheck to check logs from multiple non-Debian > systems such as routers, each having a dedicated directory with the last > directory being their FQDN. The router FQDNs follow a fixed pattern. > Currently this requires an /etc/logcheck-for-routers/logcheck.logfile.d file > for each router. If .logfiles supported wildcards, a single > /etc/logcheck-for-routers/logcheck.logfile.d file could be used for all > routers and there would be one less step in the procedures to commission and > to decommission a router. (It's a shame no-one replied since 2019: let's change that now) You could instead implement this by a script that updates the .logfiles file before logcheck runs: if you put this into logcheck.conf it would work, so eg: echo /var/log/whatever/*.log > /etc/logcheck-for-routers/logcheck.logfiles.d/routers.logfiles If that would meet your needs we could close this bug - the code to read logfiles.list is already over-complicated and adding more features needs a good reason
