ID: 7489
Title: mk_logwatch: optimize regex search
Component: Checks & agents
Level: 1
Class: New feature
Version: 1.7.0i1
For regular expressions in a logwatch section leading or trailing '.*' portions
can be
a performance desaster. With long log lines, it can virtually render your system
paralyzed.
If you are not using any rewrite patterns though, you can omit leading and trailing
'.*'
expressions without changing the set of matched lines.
mk_logwatch now detects those cases, and will optimize the patterns accordingly.