Description of problem: It looks to me, that logwatch in RHEL5 is very poorly maintained and less QA was done. If you run a postfix mailserver with ~ 10000 bis 15000 mails per day on RHEL5 and have logwatch installed, the daily logwatch mails are simply big bullshit. It's similar to "cat /var/log/maillog | mail root". This also applies to amavis, pam etc, when failed logins are there etc. etc etc. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): logwatch-7.3-5 How reproducible: Everytime, see above Actual results: Logwatch is too old for the software delivered with RHEL5. Expected results: Please upgrade logwatch as soon as possible or fix it somehow else. Additional info: An update to logwatch-7.3.6-6 worked very well for me and obsoleted all my problems, it also didn't introduce any new problems. The only maybe unwanted change which could be a regression for RHEL5 is, that mails are no longer sent directly by logwatch and the cron mail method is used. But this shouldn't be that huge problem (RHEL 5.1 or 5.2 is coming anyway).
Created attachment 220731 [details] define new log format message
Comment on attachment 220731 [details] define new log format message I found the same behaviour for our mail server. Simple patch allow logwatch correctly handle most of messages. Patch include definition of new log format for e-mail messages.
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An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0303.html