[arch-general] Recent logwatch update may need a news item?

[Vladimir Lomov]

Hello,
** Amish via arch-general [2019-09-20 05:59:11 +0530]:
 
> On 19/09/19 10:44 pm, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
>> On September 19, 2019 1:00:26 PM EDT, Amish via arch-general <arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>> those users who use logwatch that they need to take following actions:
>>> 
>>> 1) pacman -Syu
>>> 
>>> 2) cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/logwatch.service.d/local.conf
>>> [Service]
>>> ExecStart=
>>> ExecStart=/usr/bin/logwatch --output mail
>>> 
>>> 3) systemctl daemon-reload
>>> 4) systemctl --now enable logwatch.timer

Thank you for your message about changed behaviour of logwatch. I'm
using it to mail logs from different host to one address.

>> I guess it's entirely possible that users were logging without using
>> mail at all. There are guides for generically forwarding systemd logs
>> via email, though.
 
> Thanks but why would one parse logs to log it back to logs?
> The default behaviour of earlier version of logwatch was to send email to
> root. (via cron)
> So I guess if the timer was meant to be drop in replacement for cron then it
> should e-mail too.

So just look at the source:
https://sourceforge.net/p/logwatch/git/ci/master/tree/scheduler/logwatch.cron
https://sourceforge.net/p/logwatch/git/ci/master/tree/scheduler/logwatch.service
and you will see that it is not Archlinux issue, it is logwatch one.
They simply drop output to mail for service. I'm lack of time right now
but if I were you I open a ticket to ask why service isn't 100%
functional as cron job.

> Amish.

---
WBR, Vladimir Lomov

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