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)? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos