Limiting entries to LogWatch

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Mon Mar 6 20:13:55 UTC 2006


On Monday 06 March 2006 19:55, Yang Xiao wrote:
> On 3/6/06, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Monday 06 March 2006 14:05, Yang Xiao wrote:
> > > > So - since I can't fix the box, how can I get LogWatch to ignore
> > > > this? Or can't I?
> > >
> > > /etc/logwatch/conf/ignore.conf
> >
> > That looks the place for it, but I don't know how to write a 'Regular
> > Expression' for this case.  Could you, or someone, please help?
> >
> > Anne
>
> try add a line like this, it will ignore all lines begins with 'nmbd'  with
> 'WINS server' somewhere in the in the middle.
>
> nmbd*WINS server*
>
That makes sense.  OK - so in the morning I should only see 800 of these 
instead of 900 ;-)  but hopefully it will be clear the day after.

Thanks, Yang.

Anne
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