On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:40:48AM +0200, Hanspeter Kunz wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:25 +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> > also sprach Hanspeter Kunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.09.21.1017 +0100]:
> > > I didn't mean that the submission rules are unspecific. What
> > > I meant is, that the logcheck rules I submitted are unspecific,
> > > because it is their purpose to match a lot of different lines
> > > (with the same straing pattern though) in syslog.
> > 
> > Yes, I know. But the submission rules say that your rules are not
> > acceptable and that you should put .+$ after them, because "those
> > are the rules, but I did not make them".
> 
> Ok, if there is no technical reason, why every rule should end with $ I
> would suggest to change the rules then. To have .*$ at the end of a rule
> really makes no sense to me.
.*$ makes sense to me as a form of self-documentation.  When it's
present, it's easy to tell that the line is not just some partial
copy+paste gone wrong.

Justin



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