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Bug 2158271 - Logwatch 7.5.5 Reports many unmatched cronie entries "CMDEND"
Summary: Logwatch 7.5.5 Reports many unmatched cronie entries "CMDEND"
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification: Red Hat
Component: logwatch
Version: CentOS Stream
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Pavel Šimovec
QA Contact: Karel Volný
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 2160759 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-01-04 21:25 UTC by showersd
Modified: 2023-11-07 08:58 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: logwatch-7.5.5-5.el9
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Last Closed: 2023-11-07 08:23:35 UTC
Type: Bug
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
pm-rhel: mirror+

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Fedora Package Sources logwatch/blob/0ce995fb69af39c55a6b41797535b01d49eaf021/f/cron.patch 0 None None None 2023-01-04 21:25:00 UTC
Red Hat Bugzilla 1941630 0 unspecified CLOSED lots of unmatched cron log entries 2023-01-04 21:25:00 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-143977 0 None None None 2023-01-04 21:35:31 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2023:6319 0 None None None 2023-11-07 08:23:38 UTC

Description showersd 2023-01-04 21:25:01 UTC 
Description of problem:
Logwatch reports many unmatched entries for cronie starting with CMDEND


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Logwatch 7.5.5-4.el9 

How reproducible:
Very

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install OS
2. Install Logwatch (latest is 7.5.5-4.el9) 
3. Run logwatch

Actual results:
--------------------- Cron Begin ------------------------

 **Unmatched Entries**
 CMDEND (/etc/webmin/status/monitor.pl)
 CMDEND (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
 CMDEND (/etc/webmin/status/monitor.pl)
 CMDEND (/etc/webmin/status/monitor.pl)
 CMDEND (/etc/webmin/status/monitor.pl)
 CMDEND (/etc/webmin/status/monitor.pl)
 CMDEND (/etc/webmin/status/monitor.pl)
 CMDEND (/etc/webmin/status/monitor.pl)
 CMDEND (/etc/webmin/status/monitor.pl)
 CMDEND (/etc/webmin/status/monitor.pl)                                                                                                              
 CMDEND (/etc/webmin/status/monitor.pl)                                                                                                              
 CMDEND (/etc/webmin/status/monitor.pl)                                                                                                              
 CMDEND (/etc/webmin/status/monitor.pl)                                                                                                              
 CMDEND (/etc/webmin/status/monitor.pl)                                                                                                              
 CMDEND (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)    

Expected results:
No output

Additional info:
Comment 1 Habig, Alec 2023-02-18 16:19:01 UTC 
This one was already caught and fixed in Fedora, see Bug 1941630.  Apparently the new cronie always tags the end of its logging with CMDEND, which logwatch should be filtering out.

Claims to be fixed as of logwatch-7.5.5-2, but the RHEL9 package is logwatch-7.5.5-4, so that patch must not have made it over from Fedora to RHEL.

So, should be an easy fix?  Systems doing anything more complicated with cron than the out-of-the-box stuff have nearly unreadable logwatch emails at the moment.

Thanks!

PS - Bug 2160759 appears to be a duplicate of this bug
Comment 2 Pavel Šimovec 2023-03-02 13:41:08 UTC 
*** Bug 2160759 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2023-11-07 08:23:35 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (logwatch bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:6319
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