Bug 89543
| Summary: | logwatch fails to read /var/log/messages in redhat 8.0 | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Andrew Neel <ajneel> |
| Component: | logwatch | Assignee: | Elliot Lee <sopwith> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | noarch | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-07-10 16:22:19 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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The latest RHL version has 4.3.x |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 Description of problem: Logwatch scans a copy of /var/log/messages (see below) and attempts pipes a filtered output into the script called 'kernel' This script should process the input by cat->onlyservice->removerheaders->kernel which would print out data on the system logs. Howerver, the same code (provided by the redhat install) performs a cat->removerheaders->onlyservice->kernel. This produces no error but also no useful information. Redhat 8.0 uses the same logwatch.pl source version as in the 7.3 series but not the same perl version. I believe that the version of perl is the ultimate cause but have not been able to locate a specific root cause. Additionally, this package is version 2.6 while the latest version from the maintainers is 4.3.2-1. <clip from a 'logwatch.pl --print --debug=10'> ( /bin/cat /tmp/logwatch.XXJbNb15/messages | /etc/log.d/scripts/shared/removeheaders '' | /etc/log.d/scripts/shared/onlyservice 'kernel' | /etc/log.d/scripts/services/kernel) 2>&1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.'logwatch.pl --print --debug=10' 2. 3. Actual Results: the contents of the /var/log/messages are read incorrectly and a NO report is generated based on the content. Notably, it looks like one or two one-offs still work. Those being cron and samba. Expected Results: the contents of the /var/log/messages are read and a NO report is generated based on the content. Additional info: