Bug 749438

Summary:	Save to file option doesn't work in F15
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ian Mortimer <i.mortimer>
Component:	logwatch	Assignee:	Frank Crawford <frank>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	frank, kklic, richardfearn, varekova
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Description Ian Mortimer 2011-10-27 03:47:21 UTC

Description of problem:

It used to be possible to configure /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf to have logwatch save it's output to a file instead of mailing to root.  That no longer works in F15.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
logwatch-7.3.6-70.20110203svn25.fc15.noarch

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install logwatch in F15
2. configure to save to file
3. run logwatch
  
Actual results:
Output is mailed to root and not saved to file.


Expected results:
Output should be saved to the configured file as in previous versions.


Additional info:

In previous versions to save logwatch output to a file required this line in /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf:

Save "/path/to/file"

That doesn't work in F15 but does in Fedora 14 (logwatch-7.3.6-60) and EL 6 (logwatch-7.3.6-49) and earlier. 

Comments in /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf suggest that this should work:

Output = file
Filename = /path/to/file

but that doesn't work either.

The best I can do is set MailTo to null, which sends output to stdout instead of mailing it but that's not the same as the previous behaviour.

Comment 1 Frank Crawford 2011-10-27 09:55:05 UTC

Unlike earlier versions /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch includes specific command-line options that include "--output mail" which then override those in the various configuration files.

If you change these options, does this do what you want?

Comment 2 Ian Mortimer 2011-10-31 03:18:12 UTC

Yes that works.  Also with the "OPTIONS=" line commented out in the cron script, the configuration file options are now working as documented. 


Thanks
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Ian