Re: Fwd: Improved configuration hierarchy

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:25:18AM -0800, Mike Tremaine wrote:
> Kirk Bauer wrote:
> > Not sure if we want to separate default and dist... but if we weren't
> > treating all directories equally I think we should.
> > 
> > Unfortunately these days it is all I can do to forward these to the
> > list, I'm not doing as much pre-screening as I normally do.  Hopefully
> > this is a useful patch.
> > 
> > 
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Chris O'Regan <[email protected]>
> > Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 3:40 PM
> > Subject: Improved configuration hierarchy
> > To: [email protected]
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> >  I am adapting LogWatch to our environment. Fortunately a lot of the work
> >  has been done to help customize the configuration but I have made some
> >  changes. In particular, the HOWTO states that the configuration
> >  structure is the same for all three directories, but in practice this is
> >  not always true. This patch ensures that logwatch.pl will look in all
> >  three places for its configuration, and in the proper order.
> > 
> >  Also, I found it useful to separate the "default" and "dist"
> >  configuration directories. I associate the "default" with what comes
> >  with this particular version of logwatch and it should refer to the
> >  package installation directory. The "dist" directory contains
> >  modifications that affect all my servers. They should reside in a shared
> >  directory outside of the package so that it is easy to upgrade. I have
> >  also changed the naming convention to fit my environment.
> > 
> >  Not sure if these are of interest to you but I figured I would share
> >  them anyway.
> > 
> 
> 
> This one is confusing to me. I would normally think that the 
> /etc/logwatch/conf would be enough since the RPM spec says not to 
> upgrade these files? I might be missing the point. I'm going to pass on 
> this for now, Bjorn can weigh in if he has the time since the dist/ was 
> his baby.

As I understood it,

default.conf/ -> default logwatch configuration
dist.conf/    -> changes made for some distribution (usually from the
                 package maintainer)

Both of the above usually in /usr/share/logwatch or some similar
directory.

/etc/logwatch/conf/ -> local changes

It should be enough to touch the stuff in /etc/logwatch/conf/. Unless of
course you are a package maintainer. The OP should better move his
changes from "dist" to "etc".

HTH,
Markus