Fwd: Suggestion for sendmail

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From: Win Bent <[email protected]>
Date: Nov 26, 2007 5:39 PM
Subject: Suggestion for sendmail
To: [email protected]
Cc: Win Bent <[email protected]>


Logwatch 7.3 (released 03/24/06)
/usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/sendmail Revision 1.68
2006/03/21 14:58:06  bjorn

Detail Level 3 produces a nice summary of errors found, except for the
"Error during Collect" section.  The totals for individual reasons are
printed, but only as "Total:" without giving the reasons.  This is
appropriate for Level 5, but not 3, so I suggest this change:

--- -   2007-11-26 18:37:59.658868000 -0600
+++ sendmail    2007-11-24 15:11:29.000000000 -0600
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@

 ##########################################################################
-# $Id: sendmail,v 1.1 2007/11/24 19:41:37 whb Exp $
+# $Id: sendmail,v 1.2 2007/11/24 21:10:46 whb Exp $
 ##########################################################################
 # $Log: sendmail,v $
+# Revision 1.2  2007/11/24 21:10:46  whb
+# Improve "Error during Collect" for Detail=3
+#
 # Revision 1.1  2007/11/24 19:41:37  whb
 # Initial revision
 #
@@ -1569,7 +1572,8 @@
          }
          $colerror = $colerror + $CollectError{$Reason}{$Source};
       }
-      print "\n    Total: $colerror" if ($Detail >= 3);
+      if ($Detail >= 5)    { print "\n    Total: $colerror"; }
+      elsif ($Detail >= 3) { print "\n    $Reason: $colerror"; }
       $TotalError[$ErrorIndex] += $colerror;
    }
 }

Thank you for continuing to maintain and improve logwatch - I rely on it!

        - Win
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