Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Robert Tate wrote on Sun, 25 Dec 2005 01:22:18 -0500: > >> I just installed CentOS a few weeks ago and am still learning about this >> distros' methods and such, but I vote for sending out a patch or fixed >> package for it. > > You should be aware that the Logwatch installed with RHEL and CentOS is > *quite* old. Logwatch current is at 7.1. I installed it two weeks ago or > so and it works fine. I don't remember getting any yum information, > though. I didn't notice that until you mentioned it. I'll check about this > when I'm back from vacation. Maybe it was just a period with no updates. > If you do any tuning and want to have that included in the source you > better patch against a current Logwatch and submit that diff. > All in all the logwatch scripts look very much like catering for RH > products, so I'd be a bit puzzled if a newer Logwatch would miss on this. > I installed it on Suse systems as well and had to tune it heavily to get > some decent reporting because it missed the log files and is very > dependant on applications logging to their own log file. > Becuase of this thread I installed the newest logwatch program and can confirm that it =does= show a yum output of what programs have been installed/removed, and it all works very well. Sharon. -- 11:49:22 up 3 days, 2:12, 1 user, load average: 1.48, 1.49, 1.45 A taste of linux http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ Centos 4.2, KDE 3.5.0-1.7, OpenOffice 2.0.1 Registered Linux user 334501