ChangeLog

* 3.8.1.4 2017-11-13
  increase number of capture groups to 20
* 3.8.1.3 2017-10-26
  fix issue #33
* 3.8.1.2 2017-10-17
  fix getfilefingerprint for automounted nfs-shares (device-no jumps)
* 3.8.1.1 2017-07-26
  fix rununique for windows
* 3.8.1 2017-07-13
  fix eventlog rewind&unstick
  pull request #22, journald filtering
* 3.8.0.3 2017-07-05
  bugfix in type wevtutil when eventlog contains spaces
* 3.8.0.2 2017-04-25
  reorg Makefile.am
* 3.8.0.1 2017-04-24
  add forgotten files to the dist
* 3.8 2017-04-22
  add type systemd (journald), pull request #15 from adrianlzt
* 3.7.6.3 2016-11-14
  fix perl undef mesg when truncating with %(0-9)s part II
* 3.7.6.2 2016-11-11
  fix perl undef mesg when truncating with %(0-9)s
* 3.7.6.1 2016-11-11
  truncate eventlog message with %(0-9)s
* 3.7.6 2016-11-10
  add option preview
* 3.7.5.2 2016-07-13
  fix debian packaging infrastructure
* 3.7.5.1 2016-07-13
  move debian files into debian/
* 3.7.5 2016-07-13
  add debian package build tools (Thanks Hannes Hoerl)
* 3.7.4.2 2016-06-22
  bugfix for lastoffset and 16-bit-encodings
* 3.7.4.1 2016-04-14
  bugfix for flatfiles using privatestate
  bugfix for protocolfileerror
* 3.7.4 2015-12-08
  add global option protocolfileerror
* 3.7.3.1 2015-11-02
  add logfilemissing as command line option
* 3.7.3 2015-09-29
  bugfix for inversepat&allyoucaneat (pullrequest by ibpl)
* 3.7.2 2015-09-22
  add option logfilemissing=[warning|critical]
* 3.7.1.5 2015-09-07
  bugfix in --rununique, also add $options="rununique"
* 3.7.1.4 2015-08-04
  bugfix in loadstate(), very strange scenario
* 3.7.1.3 2015-07-22
  bugfix in --warning/--critical macros
* 3.7.1.2 - 2015-06-11
  cleanup my pidfile
* 3.7.1.1 - 2015-06-03
  fix a macro-bug 
* 3.7.1 - 2015-04-22
  add homevartmp as another autodetect location for seekfiles
* 3.7 - 2015-04-01
  add type wevtutil to support EVTX (Crimson) event logs.
* 3.6.3 - 2014-12-21
  resolve macros in seekfilesdir
* 3.6.2.1 - 2014-04-09
  fix eventid-format for _tecad_win_
* 3.6.2 - 2014-04-08
  eventlogformat _tecad_win_
* 3.6.1.1 - 2014-02-04
  fix a race-condition (pid file) in unix-daemon-mode (thanks Klaus Wagner)
* 3.6.1 - 2014-01-25
  added search-option "capturegroups"
  add forgotten --allyoucaneat
* 3.6 - 2013-11-14
  added global option "nooutputhitcount"
  added search-option "thresholdexpiry="
  okpattern resets threshold counters
* 3.5.3.3 - 2013-09-24
  exe files without x-bit can now run in a cygwin environment (Thanks Michael Glaser)
* 3.5.3.2 - 2013-03-28
  fixed a bug in allyoucaneat (if used with rotations)
* 3.5.3.1 - 2012-11-29
  --verbose finally works on the commandline
  htmlencode can also be an option inside a config file
* 3.5.3 - 2012-10-26
  add option htmlencode (Thanks Sven Nierlein)
* 3.5.2.1 - 2012-09-19
  fix a bug related to nfs-mounted logfiles under linux
* 3.5.2 - 2012-06-21
  fix a bug in CL_PATTERN_KEY (Thanks Frank Rothaupt)
* 3.5.1 - 2012-06-02
  add parameters --warning and --critical (they become CL_WARNING/CL_CRITICAL)
  add option "savestate" for type "virtual"
* 3.5 - 2012-04-23
  --timeout aborts searches in a controlled manner
* 3.4.7.1 - 2012-01-16
  fix a bug in maxmemsize and solaris
  fix a bug where a supersmartpostscript's output was overwritten by longoutput
* 3.4.7 - 2012-01-10
  add new type dumpel (customer's request
  bugfix in errpt's unstick method (Thanks Jim Winkle)
* 3.4.6.1 - 2012-01-05
  make rotatewait a global option
  make logfileerror a global option
* 3.4.6 - 2012-01-04
  add maxmemsize
  cleanup tab-indendation
  add option logfileerror (unlike seekfileerror it is local)
  add option rotatewait (sleep until chaos during rotation is over)
  [selected]searches can be regexp
  Eliminate "Use of qw(...) as parentheses is deprecated" warnings in perl 5.14 (Thanks Tommi)
* 3.4.5.2 - 2011-11-08
  set the path to gzip for hpux /opt/contrib..)
  fix a bug where % in error messages caused ugly perl-errors when used with scriptstdin (Thanks Thomas Klaradic)
* 3.4.5.1 - 2011-09-28
  seekfilesdir can be "autodetect" with a configfile 
  also protocolsdir (dirname(dirname(cfgfile)) + [/var/tmp|/tmp]
  also scriptpath (dirname(dirname(cfgfile)) + [/local/lib/nagios/plugins|/lib/nagios/plugins]
  type executable
  fix a perl undef (patternkey stuff which i don't remember)
* 3.4.5
  add parameter --rununique
* 3.4.4.2 - 2011-08-03
  patterns can be hashes
* 3.4.4.1 - 2011-05-31
  seekfilesdir is now local (./var/tmp) in an OMD environment
* 3.4.4 - 2011-04-19
  add parameter patternfile
* 3.4.3.2 - 2011-03-15
  fix a bug with --type rotating::uniform on the commandline
* 3.4.3.1 - 2011-03-10
  create the pidfile's directory if it doesn't exist
  new option unstick (Thanks Holger Reif)
* 3.4.3 - 2011-01-19
  add pid file handling to avoid concurrent processes with --daemon
* 3.4.2.2 - 2010-09-29
  add pattern loglog0bz2log1bz2  (Thanks Christian Schulz)
  add pattern ehl (Thanks Daniel Haist)
* 3.4.2.1 - 2010-08-04
  add %u (User) to option eventlogformat
* 3.4.2 - 2010-06-29
  fixed a bug where exceptions only worked if patterns were defined. (Thanks Heiko)
  small patch so filenames can be specified with --tag
* 3.4.1 - 2010-05-08
  new option archivedirregexp
  fixed a bug in eventlogs. (take care of type EVENTLOG_SUCCESS)
* 3.4 - 2010-05-07
  used a new version of par::packer for check_logfiles.exe (there were problems if PERL5LIB was set by an oracle/veritas/... perl installation)
* 3.3 - 2010-04-27
  speedup in pattern matching
  new (global) option seekfileerror
  added Win32::Daemon to the windows version
* 3.2 - 2010-04-08
  better errorhandling for type=eventlog. non-existing eventlogs and dead remote servers result in unknown
  type=eventlog now opens a secure channel to ipc$ if necessary
  type=eventlog now checks if the desired eventlog exists (reads registry)
  speedup in tivoli mode
  add 099benchmark.t
* 3.1.5 - 2010-03-05
  lookback option is now allowed in the config file
  fixed a bug which caused a perl-warning (only if criticalpattern=.* and last line is empty). (Thanks Sven Nierlein)
  matching empty lines are displayed as _(null)_
* 3.1.4 - 2010-02-24
  just beautify the release string
* 3.1.3.2 - 2010-02-24
  added option randominode (Thanks Sergio)
  implemented the allyoucaneat option in Eventlog
  added option preferredlevel 
* 3.1.3.1 - 2010-01-14
  made the logfile name visible in PRIVATESTATE
  changed HOMEPATH to USERPROFILE for the Windows HOME (Thanks Richard Tryzna)
* 3.1.3 - 2009-12-12
  fixed a bug in module Ipmitool
* 3.1.2 - 2009-12-08
  fixed a bug in scriptparams+macros+batsccipt
* 3.1.1 - 2009-12-02
  max plugin output length is now configurable with $options="maxlength=8192"
* 3.1 - 2009-11-22
  report can now be set in a cfgfile (global, e.g. $options="report=long")
  new option "allyoucaneat" (the initial run starts from line 0)
  new option "eventlogformat" (e.g. options='eventlogformat="id:%i %m",..')
  Eventlog can now be filtered with include and exclude
  new module Esxdiag
* 3.0.4 - 2009-09-20
  accept the contents of a config file as encoded string
* 3.0.3.1 - 2009-09-07
  Fixed a bug where incorrect EventIDs were read from the EventLog
* 3.0.3 - 2009-08-26
  Speedup in Eventlog scans
  Under some OSs the daemon did not detach itself from the terminal
* 3.0.2 - 2009-07-23
  fixed a bug for --config. (Windows uses HOMEPATH instead of HOME)
  fixed a bug in Eventlog+Tivoli (Thanks Werner Breitschmid)
* 3.0.1 - 2009-06-25
  fixed a bug in Eventlog+Tivoli
  added match_them_all and match_never_ever as predefined patterns
* 3.0 - 2009-06-19
  added the ability to run as a windows service. (needs Win32::Daemon)
* 2.6 2009-05-26
  added the --lookback parameter to simulate filter-written of CheckEventLog
  --critical/warningpattern can now be "match_them_all" instead of ".*"
  --archivedir is now also a cmd line parameter
  added the --daemon parameter. 
  warning/criticalthreshold moved into options. 
  added --warning/criticalthreshold to the list of possible comdline parameters 
  Sven Nierlein wrote a module which reads patterns from a Tivoli Format File.
  fixed incorrect calculation of protocolretention. (Thanks Rainer Rose)
* 2.5.6.1 - 2009-03-25
  there was some debugging output left from 2.5.6
* 2.5.6 - 2009-03-25
  fixed a bug in oraclealertlog+sticky
  rewrote oraclealertlog so that the key is database time and not the plugin's system time
  added the --macro parameter, e.g. --macro CL_LOGIN=nagios --macro CL_PASS=secret
  added errorresource to type errpt
  added the --nocase parameter
  fixed a bug with line endings in unicode files
* 2.5.5.2 - 2009-02-20
  added the report variable to config files
  more extensive testing of the logfile's permissions
  added the option maxlength which truncates lines (Thanks Thomas Borger)
  added the option winwarncrit which uses EventLog types instead of patterns
* 2.5.5.1 - 2009-02-02
  another bugfix for blanks in protocolsdir
  i accidentially published a messed-up version of 2.5.5
* 2.5.5 - 2008-01-23
  multiline output with --report=long/html
  bugfix in rotation patterns (Thanks Elbert Lai and Prasana Iyengar)
  bugfix in type=oraclealertlog
  bugfix in scripts and windows pathnames with blanks. (Thanks Juergen Walker)
* 2.5 - 2008-11-04
  native support for Windows eventlog (type=eventlog)
* 2.4.1.9 - 2008-10-30
  bugfix in handling of config file paths. (Thanks Ken Harford)
* 2.4.1.8 - 2008-10-24
  bugfix in Windows scriptpath. (Thanks Markus Wagner)
  relative pathnames for config files are now possible under windows
* 2.4.1.7 - 2008-10-10
  bugfix in rotating::uniform and macros in rotation
  bugfix scriptparams with CL_TAG (Thanks Markus Wagner)
* 2.4.1.6 - 2008-09-03
  added parameter --environment
* 2.4.1.5 - 2008-08-15
  syslogclient hostnames can be case insensitive with option nocase
* 2.4.1.4 - 2008-07-20
  scripts have access to a state hash, Environ. LAST_RUNTIME, RUN_COUNT
  bugfix in type=uniform
* 2.4.1.3 - 2008-06-24
  fixed a bug in --sticky=<duration> (Thanks Severin Rossignol)
* 2.4.1.2 - 2008-06-18
  fixed a bug in CL_DATE_YY (Thanks beboy)
* 2.4.1.1 - 2008-05-29
  archivedir can contain macros
* 2.4.1 - 2008-05-22
  fixed a bug in sticky code (Thanks Nils Mueller)
* 2.4 - 2008-05-07
  added support for oracle alert log through database connection
* 2.3.3 - 2008-04-10
  introduced -F which allows directories full of configfiles 
  (ending in .cfg or .conf)
  fixed a typo in LOGLOG0LOG1 definition
* 2.3.2.1 - 2008-02-26
  fixed a bug which appeared with perl 5.10
  tinkered with encoding.
* 2.3.2 - 2008-02-12
  added support for ipmitool system event log.
  fixed a small errpt bug.
  added decoding of ucs-2 encoded files as proposed by Dominic Horn.
* 2.3.1.3 - 2008-01-28
  small change to make it work with perl 5.10
* 2.3.1.2 - 2007-12-27
  added macro CL_PROTOCOLFILE
  more commandline options
  Fixed a bug in conjunction with very big logfiles.
* 2.3.1.1 - 2007-11-16
  Fixed a bug concerning sticky. (Thanks Marc Richter)
  New option savethresholdcount. (Thanks Hannu Kivimäki)
* 2.3.1 - 2007-10-14
  Added search templates. Thanks Axel.
  Threshold counters are remembered.
  Fixed a big in scriptparams found by Niall Downie.
  Support for bzip2'ed archives
* 2.3 - 2007-09-10
  Added AIX errpt as a new type of logfile.
  Performance data are now in the expected format.
  Added the sticky option. (I hate it. No support!)
  Added the syslogclient option.
  Error counters can now be reset with okpatterns.
  Buxfixes for supersmart postscript output.
* 2.2.4.1 - 2007-06-11
  Fixed a bug (--searches) found by Mark Petersen
* 2.2.4 - 2007-06-06
  Added support for "virtual" files. (like /proc/*)
* 2.2.3 - 2007-06-05
  Fixed a bug with non-linux unices. 
  Banged my head against the table. 
* 2.2.2 - 2007-06-02
  Added support for supersmart pre/postscripts with no output
* 2.2.1 - 2007-06-01
  Added parameters to perl-based scripts
  Fixed bugs in DOS batch files
* 2.2 - 2007-05-31
  Scripts can now be code references.
  Added smart scripts.
* 2.1.2 - 2007-05-24
  Added the [no]case option to enable case insensitive searches.
  Fixed a bug related to acls and linux. (thx Marcus Fleige).
* 2.1.1 - 2007-05-21
  Removed sloppyness from the release 2.1
* 2.1 - 2007-05-21
  Added support for Windows (ActiveState Perl)
  Added the mod_log_rotate method for Apache and Windows.
  Fixed a bug in configure for solaris/awk 
  Added "selectedsearches" as proposed by Lars Stavholm.
* 2.0 - 2007-05-09
  New layout of code using perl objects.
  Added handling of nonrotating logfiles as proposed by Kai Nielsen.
  Added performance data.
  Bugs, improvements, cosmetics, tests
* 1.3.6.1 - 2006-10-20
  Corrected a bug which created protocol files even if no pattern matched.
  Added a delay option as proposed by some users of the syslog check method.
* 1.3.6
  Added execution of scripts if inverse patterns are not found.
  Corrected typos in README
  Added command line parameters as proposed by Hendrik "Andurin" Baecker.
* 1.3.5 - 2006-08-23
  Code cleanup
  Removed nsca support in favour of a more flexible script handling.
  Added support for script parameters and modeling of the script's input.
  Matches are now passed as environment parameters to scripts.
* 1.3.4 - 2006-08-06
  Added support for shifting logfilenames through macros.
* 1.3.3 - 2006-07-03
  Added nsca support for standalone use of check_logfiles
* 1.3.2 - 2006-07-27
  Added "watchdog" patterns which raise an alert when not found.
  Added exceptions for patterns which stop processing of a preceding match.
  More documentation in README
  Fixed syntax errors found by Doug Lochart.
* 1.3.1 - 2006-07-24
  Added automatic deletion of old protocol files.
  Added handling of an unreadable logfile.
* 1.3 - 2006-07-04
  Added an option for syslogservers to filter out foreign log entries.
  Added macros in patterns.
  Fixed a bug in timeout handling.
  Added Debian to the list of predefined rotation methods.
* 1.2.6 - 2006-07-03
  Added options {critical,warning}threshold as proposed by jorge cabrera.
* 1.2.5 - 2006-04-17
  Fixed a bug in the fake seek algorithm.
* 1.2.4 - 2006-04-15
  Added a workaround to enable seeking in a pipe.
  Minor bugfixing in tracing output.
  Added some more examples to README.
* 1.2.3 - 2006-04-11
  Minor modifications to tracing.
  Duplicate file detection to prevent scanning the same file twice.
  Added examples to README.
* 1.2.2 - 2006-03-31
  Added an new item to tracing as requested
* 1.2.1 - 2006-03.27
  Fixed a small bug in mtime comparison
* 1.2 - 2006-03-27
  Changed the default timeout to 60 seconds
  Added a better rotation detection
  Added -d option to activate extensive tracing
  Bugfixing and commenting
* 1.1 - 2006-03-24
  Added the first match to the plugin's output
* 1.0 - 2006-03-12
  Initial release