Re: emerge log time range

> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: [Logwatch-Devel] emerge log time range
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm pretty know to logwatch, but I think there's a problem 
> with the emerge scripts.  I have logwatch set up to run 
> hourly, but it appears as though the final report contains 
> information from the emerge.log file for the past day.  Am I 
> right, or am I missing/misconfiguring something?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason

Jason,

The emerge script appears to search for the day selected via --range
(default yesterday), regardless of hour, etc.

You can see this in the script:

 /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logfiles/emerge/applydate

as the TimeFilter is looking for dates matching "%b %d, %Y", which is Mon
Day, Year.

MrC