[Mimedefang] Logwatch stopped gleening as much useful (MdF) info following FC5 upgrade

alan premselaar alien at 12inch.com
Mon Dec 25 02:43:47 EST 2006


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Philip Prindeville wrote:
> I used to get some useful Logwatch info when I was
> running FC3:
...snip...

> Then I upgraded the OS to FC5 (but kept everything else
> the same), and now I hardly get anything useful at all:
> 
...snip...

> 
> So...  Anyone know what might have changed to stop logwatch from
> gathering as much useful information?  Did one of the log formats
> change in either Sendmail or MdF that might cause it to not be
> grepped out properly by logwatch?
> 
> Of course, that wouldn't have stopped Logwatch from gathering the
> useful summary information that it used to about top relays,
> volumes handled, etc.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Philip

I ran into issues like this as well and dug into the logwatch configs, etc.

I'm pretty sure that along with the FC3 -> FC5 upgrade you upgraded
logwatch (from RPM) correct?  that's what happened to me and I found
that by default the latest logwatch ignores "Milter: changed" (or
something like that) lines now.

HTH

Alan
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