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Description of problem: Using logwatch + new logrotate Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): logwatch-7.3.6-15.fc8 logrotate-3.7.6-2.2.fc8 logwatch-7.3.6-22.fc9.noarch logrotate-3.7.6-5.fc9.i386 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Remove old logfiles, if still present cd /var/log rm *.1 *.2 *.3 *.4 *.5 */*.1 */*.2 */*.3 */*.4 */*.5 # add -f, if you are sure 2. verify, that dateext is set: grep ^dateext /etc/logrotate.conf ls -la /var/log/*-* 3. logwatch --range Yesterday --service postfix Actual results: Nothing (empty output). May be sometimes output is incomplete. Expected results: Some data. Additional info: I think there is a problem with logwatch configuration. For example this file contains: /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logfiles/messages.conf Archive = messages.* Archive = archiv/messages.* But does not contain: Archive = messages-* Logrotate in F8+ has an option "dateext" which saves old logs into filenames like: /var/log/messages-20080810 They are not parsed by current logwatch. Adding messages-* fix this probem. This heve to be done for all configuration files. May be in upstream too.
logwatch runs before logrotate each morning, so the automatically-generated logwatch e-mails will only be incorrect on Monday morning - Sunday's log entries will be split across two files due to rotation on Sunday morning. Since dateext is a parameter, the logwatch config files should be updated to cope both dates *and* numbers in the archived logs.
This problem should be fixed by version 7.3.6-28.fc10. Could you please test it?
I don't see fix in sources and config files in this version. In maillog.conf there are still only these files: Archive = maillog.* Archive = syslog.* Archive = archiv/maillog.* Archive = mail.log.*.gz Still same problem, I was tryed to rotate my logs manually and after this rotation there are no output of maillog. I think this have to be done for other logfiles/*.conf files. Please, update "needinfo" flag, because I am not "ondrejj" but "ondrejj" and I have no access to this flag.
The change is in fc10 branch for now, but I will put it to fc9 and attach a link here.
The package n-v-r is logwatch-7.3.6-24.fc9. Is this version ok?
This looks OK, but does not work on my Fedora 9 machine. But I think problem is now on my side (yesterday's mail logs are missing in my logfile). I can't test this before it will be at least in fedora-testing repository for F8. Please, request to add to fedora8-testing and I will make more tests. logwatch-7.3.6-logrotate.patch looks to be OK.
logwatch-7.3.6-17.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/logwatch-7.3.6-17.fc8
> The package n-v-r is logwatch-7.3.6-24.fc9. Is this version ok? I've downloaded it from Koji and installed it; I'll know if it's fixed the problem on Monday morning! Thanks.
logwatch-7.3.6-17.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update logwatch'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-8232
Works well for me on F8. Please put this to stable. Thank you.
logwatch-7.3.6-17.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
I'm testing logwatch-7.3.6-25.fc9.noarch due to bug 462174, and this version correctly deals with log entries in the archived maillog. Thanks!