Re: new debian patches

Willi Mann <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Sep 2014 16:53:11 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.log.logwatch.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

thanks for including (most of) the patches.

Am 2014-09-09 um 01:01 schrieb Stefan Jakobs:
>> 0005-logfiles-vsftpd.conf-Use-custom-pattern-for-applystd.patch
> Default syslog does not print a year. So this would break the filter on many 
> machines.

Hmm, I thought that vsftpd.log is written directly by the vsftpd daemon.

>> The patch
>>
>> 0006-Deb-specific-Print-full-path-to-freshclam-log.patch
>>
>> is a hack that I think only makes sense on Debian where we know the
>> default location of freshclam.log. I think it would be nice if service
>> scripts could get the list of logfiles that triggered their invocation,
>> but AFAIK this does not exist yet, right?
> 
> I have attached a rough patch which makes a space separated list of 
> logfiles/archives available via LOGWATCH_{LOGFILE,ARCHIVE}_LIST envionment 
> variable. Do you think this would be usefull?

There is no patch attached, but what you describe would be exactly what
I need for freshclam log.

Bye
Willi


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