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Bug 87483 - logwatch behaves on my "cgs-new" host.
Summary: logwatch behaves on my "cgs-new" host.
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: logwatch
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Elliot Lee
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-03-27 15:55 UTC by Zoran Dzelajlija
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:52 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: 4.3.2-2
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2003-07-10 17:15:37 UTC

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Description Zoran Dzelajlija 2003-03-27 15:55:21 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020913
Debian/1.2.6-2

Description of problem:
logwatch dumps all of the entries from /var/log/cron into my admin
mailbox.  Upon closer inspection, I found this regexp in
/etc/log.d/scripts/services/cron:

"s/^... .. ..:..:.. \w+ \w+\[\d+\]: \((\S+)\)\s+//"

This fails on my computer because the first \w doesn't match the "-" sign in my
hostname.  Replacing it with [\w-] is also incorrect (but works for me :-)
because, AFAIR, DNS documentation says host names should comprise of
[a-zA-Z0-9-] (note no underscore).  So the correct
regex would probably have [a-zA-Z0-9-]+ instead of the first \w.

Regards,
Zoran Dzelajlija

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
logwatch-4.3.1-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.set the hostname to something with - .
2.let some cron jobs trickle into the log
3.run /etc/cron.d/00-logwatch


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