[CentOS] Bug in yum Logwatch reporting

Tue Apr 7 02:19:06 UTC 2009
Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden at gmail.com>

Hi,

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:31, Brett Serkez <bserkez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yum updates are logged in /var/log/yum.log, which is what Logwatch
> scans.  Seems that the format of the log entries is: "MMM DD", the
> year is missing!   This morning looking at this log sequentially I
> noticed I did do yum updates on Apr 02 and Apr 03 as reported in last
> night's logwatch, but not April of 2009, but rather April of 2008!

I (and many others) have seen this issue before.

I opened a bug for it upstream:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447021

But it was ignored.

Your feedback to upstream would probably be welcome there.

Cheers,
Filipe