Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report. Summary: Review Request: postfix-logwatch - A postfix log analyzer for logwatch Alias: postfix-logwatch https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=350341 ------- Additional Comments From mike-bugzilla@xxxxxxxxxxx 2007-11-03 23:26 EST ------- I understand the motivation. The version of logwatch has been historically ancient in RHEL releases. It may be not safe to assume that my current versions of postfix-logwatch will just work in older versions of logwatch. I'll make no guarantees there. I've also restructured the code into multiple perl modules, which will be shared with amavis-logwatch, and future parsers. One of the primary reasons I wrote postfix-logwatch, and added the standalone feature, was so that the script could be run from the command line, allowing more dynamic varieties of reports, which is not possible under logwatch without modifying the conf/services/postfix.conf file before each run. The standalone config file is likely to be different than that used for logwatch (in conf/services). The newer --config_file option allows using varieties of configuration files for specific reports, and command line options provide further customization on the fly (esp. with new, upcoming features). There is also a new man page; logwatch doesn't have module-specific man pages, so this is a bit of a divergence. As an "encouragement" to make the utility available in standalone mode, consider speed and performance. Logwatch is very clumsy and expensive in how it deals with log files - it copies the primary log file, and when archives are being searched, the archives as well, into a monolithic copy in the tmp directory. Performance on larger installations can be abysmal. I encourage using postfix-logwatch in standalone mode to avoid this excess. I'd prefer not to deal with any confusions regarding which version filter is in which version of logwatch. If this can be minimized, I'm ok with it. MrC -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review