Unmatched Entries

jack craig jackc at linuxlighthouse.com
Thu Aug 13 23:09:45 UTC 2009


On 08/13/2009 04:04 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 13Aug2009 23:55, Erik P. Olsen<epodata at gmail.com>  wrote:
> | In the Smartd section of Logwatch I get the following messages:
> |
> |  **Unmatched Entries**
> |  Problem creating device name scan list
> |  Device /dev/sda: using '-d sat' for ATA disk behind SAT layer.
> |  Device /dev/sdb: using '-d sat' for ATA disk behind SAT layer.
> |  Device /dev/sdc: using '-d sat' for ATA disk behind SAT layer.
> |  Device /dev/sdd: using '-d sat' for ATA disk behind SAT layer.
> |
> | What is it that these entries do not match?
>
> They don't match LogWatch's pattern matches. LogWatch parses your logs
> and summarises their content. To do that it must recognise each line
> and decide to ignore it or summarise it. Lines it doesn't recognise get
> reported explicitly as above because it doesn't know how to treat them.
> For safety it shows them to you.
>
> Cheers,
>    
is there a way to teach logwatch about these device nodes so the warning 
goes away?

curious, thx, jackc...

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