On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 08:33 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
> Michael Yingbull wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm following up from ticket #226, which is tracking improvements to the log
>> analyzer system.
>> This would be what analyzers the logs on lockbox, which is the syslog host
>> for infrastructure machines:
>>
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/226
>>
>> I wanted to capture what we wanted the new analyzer to do.
>> Main feedback I had from discussion in #fedora-admin was a need for more
>> signal, less noise:
>> the current 'analyzed' logs were too verbose and had too much cruft.
>>
>> Did I capture that requirement?
>>
>>
> I think this is the biggest thing. Obviously we don't want to /dev/null
> log lines but at the same time the current format is pretty useless to
> us. I guess it might be best to do as much cleanup as possible and then
> see where things are.
>
Actually, there's a huge portion of what is in the current logs that
needs to either:
1. be dumped out by epylog's weeder
2. be stopped from occurring on the system generating the message.
Michael, if you need any assistance with this, let me know, I have a
fair bit of experience adding weedlists to epylog.