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On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 11:59:25PM +0200, Vladimir Smelhaus wrote:
> I am trying to configure notifications from svlogd but I am not able
> how to persuade it to mail me only messages that I want.
> 
> When I want to have e-mailed all, say error, messages it is easy. But
> when  I want all error messages except one or two it does not work as I
> expect.
> 
> e*.err: *
> E*.err: First text
> E*.err: Second text
> 
> Please, can someone tell me what is the proper notation? Or is this
> possible? I think that eE should work similarly as +- for logging.

I agree that it should work just like +-, each line deselected
initially.  But currently eE lines are interpreted separately; if a
pattern matches, the line is printed to stderr immediately, see
svlogd(8).  Unfortunately this should not change in version 1.0.x.

Thanks, Gerrit.