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Mandi! David Verdin
  In chel d? si favelave...

DV> Anyway, do you mean that you have too much logs coming out of sympa 
DV> despite your log_level parameter in sympa.conf being set to 0 ?

Not properly.
Logcheck (http://logcheck.org/) is a system that parse logs and extract
'events' based on a set of rules, barely regular expressions.

Substantially you have to define some sort of 'ignore lists' as a RE,
and build up the ignore list for sympa have proved to be a rather
comploex tasks, eg for now (for wwsympa):

 ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ wwsympa\[[0-9]+\]: \[robot 
[._[:alnum:]-]+\] \[client [._[:alnum:]-]+\] Could not find CSS file 
/style.css, using default CSS$
 ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ wwsympa\[[0-9]+\]: \[robot 
[._[:alnum:]-]+\] \[client [._[:alnum:]-]+\] unknown action 
 ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ wwsympa\[[0-9]+\]: \[robot 
[._[:alnum:]-]+\] \[client [._[:alnum:]-]+\] 
do_(home|loginrequest|choosepasswd)$
 ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ wwsympa\[[0-9]+\]: \[robot 
[._[:alnum:]-]+\] \[client [._[:alnum:]-]+\] 
do_(remindpasswd|sendpasswd|log(in|out)|lists|help)\([^)]*\)$
 ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ wwsympa\[[0-9]+\]: \[robot 
[._[:alnum:]-]+\] \[client [._[:alnum:]-]+\] do_logout: user not logged in$
 ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ wwsympa\[[0-9]+\]: \[robot 
[._[:alnum:]-]+\] \[client [._[:alnum:]-]+\] do_sendpasswd: no email$
 ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ wwsympa\[[0-9]+\]: \[robot 
[._[:alnum:]-]+\] \[client [._[:alnum:]-]+\] do_(which|pref)(|: no user)$
 ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ wwsympa\[[0-9]+\]: \[robot 
[._[:alnum:]-]+\] \[client [._[:alnum:]-]+\] \[user [^[:space:]]+\] 
(do_(serveradmin|pending_lists|purge_list\(\)|skinsedit)|get_(latest_lists|inactive_lists|closed_lists))$
 ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ wwsympa\[[0-9]+\]: \[robot 
[._[:alnum:]-]+\] \[client [._[:alnum:]-]+\] \[(user|alt) [^[:space:]]+\] 
do_(home|choosepasswd|setpasswd|pref|setpref)$
 ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ wwsympa\[[0-9]+\]: \[robot 
[._[:alnum:]-]+\] \[client [._[:alnum:]-]+\] \[(user|alt) [^[:space:]]+\] 
do_(logout|lists)(\([^)]*\)|: logout performed)$
 ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ wwsympa\[[0-9]+\]: \[robot 
[._[:alnum:]-]+\] \[client [._[:alnum:]-]+\](| \[user [^[:space:]]+\]) \[list 
[._[:alnum:]-]+\] do_(info|admin)$
 ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ wwsympa\[[0-9]+\]: \[robot 
[._[:alnum:]-]+\] \[client [._[:alnum:]-]+\](| \[user [^[:space:]]+\]) \[list 
[._[:alnum:]-]+\] 
do_(admin|edit_list(|_request)|review|arc|suboptions)\([^)]*\)$
 ^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ wwsympa\[[0-9]+\]: ARC_FILE: 
(thrd|mail|msg)[0-9]+\.html$


DV> If you want to gather synthetic informations about your logs, you might 
DV> want to use the DB logs. This is a sympa 5.3 functionnality that allows 
DV> to store some (not all) sympa logs in its database. This makes possible 
DV> to consult them through the web interface, for example.
DV> The logs stored are those related to informations likely to be useful to 
DV> owners (errors, bounce, etc.)

...this seems a very usefoul feature, but i'm using 5.2.X (debian
package) and indeed i think that will still need a correctly-written
logcheck rule file.

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