#391720 Package logwatch doesn't install default config

Package:
logwatch
Source:
logwatch
Submitter:
Ka Teznik
Date:
2015-09-03 17:12:03 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#391720#5
Date:
2006-10-08 10:38:36 UTC
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I just installed logwatch on an etch fresh install
Directories /etc/logwatch and subdirectories are empty

I suggest post-inst should run the commands listed
in /usr/share/doc/logwatch/README, ie :

mv local.conf /etc/logwatch/conf
touch /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf
touch /etc/logwatch/conf/ignore.conf
touch /etc/logwatch/conf/override.conf


I am using Debian GNU/Linux testing/etch, kernel 2.6.17-2-686

Cheers for the work anyway.
#391720#10
Date:
2006-10-08 18:54:52 UTC
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severity 391720 wishlist
thanks

Ka Teznik schrieb:

Severity completely crazy. Or can you justify?

No, I won't. I have not yet decided if I will ship an empty
comfiguration file. However, it's documented anyway, and if I start
adding some empty configuration files I might need to add all. The only
possible justification would be that the upstream installation script
adds them (at least the empty ones) in 7.3.1, so this might happen (but
probably will contain some basic information why they exist), but not
for etch.
#391720#17
Date:
2006-10-08 21:58:33 UTC
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Le Dimanche 8 Octobre 2006 20:54, Willi Mann a écrit :

I was believing this rendered logwatch unable to function properly. I saw
later that default config is ok. Sorry for this mistake, severity wishlist is
then ok.

May I suggest you just install the default local.conf ? It's not empty, and
some sysadmin (like me) are used to edit files in /etc/whatever just after
installing...

Thanks for your work !
#391720#24
Date:
2007-04-23 10:27:13 UTC
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Hi!

Sorry to bother you with that after 6 month but:

What did you mean by local.conf .. not empty? As far as I can see, all
non-empty files and the directory layout are created. Do you still miss
anything? I would like to avoid empty files.

Willi
#391720#31
Date:
2007-07-06 12:25:21 UTC
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Le 23 04 2007, à 12:27:13 +0200, Willi Mann (willi@wm1.at) disait:


Hi,

Sorry to answer late.

As I remember the problem, the file local.conf wasn't created by default
install. Il the /usr/share/doc/logwatch directory you can found a file
with all the option explained and positionned to the default. That's
what I mean by "not empty".

If this file was copied in /etc/whatever, one can configure logwath by
simply editing this file, and not have the burden to find a sample
local.cf to copy there before configuring logwatch.

As stated, this is only a whishlist :-)

Cheers,
#391720#36
Date:
2013-06-26 12:21:48 UTC
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Hello,

I'd like to comment on the "logwatch doesn't install default config"
bugreport. Let me start by describing the problem I had:

On a machine of ours logwatch was using a really weird domain in the
sender address (From: ...). I've got no clue where it got it from. So I
wanted to configure it. But from the documentation I could not find a hint
how to do that. The closest information I found in the provided docs
and through online search was to modify logwatch files directly in
/usr/.../logwatch. Well, that certainly can't be a good way to do it.

Then I found http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/logwatch1.htm and things cleared
up. So I'd like to suggest to provide a /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf
file as exemplified by that article, that contains all the default
logwatch settings and can be changed to the admin's preferences and needs.

Thanks,
*t