[Following up to myself] David Guntner grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > Since upgrading to Wheezy, I've had the following entries showing up in > my morning logwatch E-Mail: > >> --------------------- Dovecot Begin ------------------------ >> >> Dovecot disconnects: >> Inactivity: 27 Time(s) >> Inactivity (tried to use disallowed plaintext auth): 2 Time(s) >> Logged out in=1115 out=13676: 1 Time(s) >> Logged out in=12173 out=351935: 1 Time(s) >> Logged out in=1272 out=27883: 1 Time(s) >> Logged out in=1303 out=25234: 1 Time(s) >> Logged out in=1337 out=25064: 1 Time(s) >> Logged out in=1419 out=30466: 1 Time(s) >> Logged out in=1527 out=13360: 1 Time(s) >> [...] > > Now, the way those entries are showing up in the syslog looks like this: > >> Aug 11 09:12:48 janet dovecot: imap({username}): Disconnected: Logged out >> in=1714 out=32525 >> Aug 11 09:56:55 janet dovecot: imap({username}): Disconnected: Logged out >> in=2348 out=48815 >> Aug 11 13:06:15 janet dovecot: imap({username}): Disconnected: Logged out >> in=2566 out=44455 >> [...] > > "{username}" is just me blanking out the username that appeared there. :-) > > Now, for the topper, here's what's in /etc/logwatch/conf/ignore.conf: > >> dovecot: .*Connection closed in= >> dovecot: .*Logged out in= >> dovecot: .*Disconnected for inactivity in= > > So, the $64,000 question is: Why are those entries showing up in the > report?? What am I missing here? :-) > > (It's all the "logged out" messages I'm trying to ignore.)
Ok, upon further searching around, I think I found the problem. It looks like the config file location for the program moved somewhere along the way. It's no longer using /etc/logwatch (I *thought* that directory seemed kinda empty other than my lone ignore.conf file which had been there; it probably didn't get removed because it knew I had modified the file), but is now in /usr/share/logwatch/default.config. Which strikes me as a rather strange place to put config files.... I'll put my entries in the ignore.conf file there and see if that takes care of it. --Dave
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