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:
The latest RHL version has 4.3.x