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The "from" address is "logcheck system account".

Terminology and naming

  • filters, patterns and rules  The logcheck documentation uses "filter", "pattern" and  "rule" interchangeably, applying them to directories, files and individual regular expressions.

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  •   On this WIKI page, only "filter" is used.  It is used only to mean a single filter (a line in a file).  On this page, a file of filters is called a "filter file".

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  • server and workstation are filtering levels, not computer roles.  From README.logcheck:
    • "ignore.d.server; as the name implies, this is intended to cut out the routine messages ..."
    • "ignore.d.workstation.  "... is only appropriate for relatively sheltered, non-critical machines"

  • Filter file names  The filter file for generic messages is called "logcheck".  The rest of the filter files are named after a Debian package and contain filters for messages generated by software in the package.

logcheck emails

Unwanted messages under ATTACK ALERT

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