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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