[CentOS] logwatch patch

[Robert Tate]

I ran FC4 befor wipeing it out to install CentOS 4.2. It logwatch used to report almost every day about updates. That is part of the reason I know something was wrong with it in CentOS. I can't go back now an check what the scripts look like any more. 

On Sunday 25 December 2005 08:53 pm, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> William L. Maltby wrote:
> > My system, 4.2 i386, fully current AFAIK, does not have
> >
> >    scripts/shared/applyyumdate
> >
> > but does have applyusdate.
>
> The applyyumdate is new file (intriduced by patch).  It does not exist
> in current logwatch.  The yum.log logfile has same date format as
> standard syslog logfiles.  However there's some differences after the
> date (hostname, process name, and PID are missing), so existing
> applystdate can't be used to process yum.log.  I had two options.  To
> patch applystddate to be able to parse yum.log (trivial, just add two
> lines to it), or to create separate file just for yum.log.  I opted for
> later approach.  Patching applystddate was bad choice (IMO) since it
> might change what gets filtered out from standard logfiles (where it is
> heavilly used).  Reports generated by logwatch in CentOS could differ
> from logwatch in upstream.  Creating new date filter script
> (applyyumdate) that would be used only for processing yum logfiles isn't
> going to change how standard logfiles are processed.  Except for
> additonal yum section, the remainder of report would be exactly the same.
>
> I don't have any Fedora Core system handy (right now).  Fedora Core uses
> yum (same as CentOS).  If the same bug exists in Fedora Core, submitting
> a patch might be good idea (since Fedora Core is upstream's testing
> ground).  Anybody has FC3 or FC4 at hand, and could check how
> /var/log/yum.log looks like?  Is it the same format as in CentOS 4.  I
> guess it should be.  AFAIK (and I could be wrong) yum in CentOS should
> be yum from FC?  Does logwatch works correctly in FC3 and FC4 (as far as
> parsing yum.log)?
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