Re: {bb} Inverse rules

[Robert-Andre Croteau <sirac@videotron.ca>]

Paul Bigelow wrote:
> 
> I finally found the time to upgrade from 1.2a to 1.2b. Now I'm getting
> different behaviour in the paging rules.
> 
> I have these rules:
> !*;;msgs;;*;*;*
> *;;*;;*;*;me@myaddress
> but with 1.2b I am now getting paged for msgs going red.
> 
> Changing this so that the hostname is specific and not wild-carded, stops
> the pages:
> !host1;;msgs;;*;*;*
> !host2;;msgs;;*;*;*
> !host3;;msgs;;*;*;*
> *;;*;;*;*;me@myaddress
> 
> Which reminds me, I don't think anyone ever answered my question a number of
> months ago on the scope of the negative rules. Are there any order
> dependencies, or does a "!" rule over-ride all other matching rules
> regardless of position? What result would this produce?:
> *;;*;;*;*;me@myaddress
> !*;;msgs;;*;*;*
> *;;*;;*;*;them@theiraddress

There's a bug in bb-page.sh,  at line 744 change '*' to ' *'.

BTW, as of your other question .  the ! rule precedes anything.
There is no precedence rules in bbwarnrules.cfg.  All rules lines
are examined and a recipient's list is built.  This list is then
used for notifications.

bye
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