Re: sendmail service stuck on detail = 3

Bjorn via Logwatch-devel <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Apr 2019 14:48:34 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.log.logwatch.devel
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On 4/16/19 11:43 AM, Glen Gunselman wrote:


> I looks like detail is hard coded somewhere to 3 (setting it to 1 does
> not change the report).
> =

> =A0
> =

> I changed the script by adding=A0 my$Detail =3D 25; and that does produce
> additional details.
> =

> =A0
> =

> Is there a correct way to override this default?

Check the service-specific configuration file:
	/etc/logwatch/conf/services/sendmail.conf

That's the recommended place to change per-service Detail variable, and
I believe it overrides the global settings (although not as intuitive
when running only one service interactively).