--- a/fixbot/logwatch/message.py	Fri Feb 05 22:20:59 2010 +0200
+++ b/fixbot/logwatch/message.py	Fri Feb 05 22:56:14 2010 +0200
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 import syslog
 import time, datetime
 import re
+import os.path
 
 PRIORITY_NAMES = {
     syslog.LOG_EMERG:       'emerg',
@@ -177,6 +178,42 @@
             message         = self.message,
         )
 
+    @property
+    def normalized_program (self) :
+        """
+            Returns a normalized version of the program name:
+                - lowercase
+                - no path components
+
+            Returns None if there is no program tag
+        """
+        
+        if self.program is None :
+            return None
+
+        else :
+            return os.path.basename(self.program).lower()
+    
+    def match_program (self, program) :
+        """
+            If the given value is False, checks that this message does *not* have a program tag.
+
+            Otherwise, does a case-insensitive basename() compare of the given value against the message tag's program
+            name portion.
+        """
+
+        if program is False :
+            # only match if no tag
+            return self.program is None
+        
+        elif self.program is None :
+            # no program to match against...
+            return False
+
+        else :
+            # match against normalized name
+            return self.normalized_program == program.lower()
+
     def match (self, regexp=None, program=None) :
         """
             Evaluate a match against this message using the given criteria
@@ -187,21 +224,11 @@
 
         params = {}
         
-        ## program
-        if program is False :
-            # only match if no tag
-            if self.program is not None :
+        if program is not None :
+            if not self.match_program(program) :
+                # program did not match
                 return False
 
-        elif program is not None :
-            # case-insensitive match
-            if self.program.lower() != program.lower() :
-                return False
-        
-        else :
-            # params
-            params['program'] = self.program
-
         ## pattern
         if regexp is not None :
             # apply regexp