Re: logrotate/logwatch error on fc15

[Alex]

> > I have an fc15 box and I'm having a problem with logwatch. I'm using
> > bzip2 for the compresscmd for logrotate, yet it somehow is giving the
> > compressed files a gz instead of bz2 extension. Logwatch uses this to
> > determine which command to use to read the compressed files, so it
> > therefore is using the wrong command.
> compressext
>               Specifies which extension to use on compressed logfiles, if
> compression is enabled.  The default follows that of the configured
> compression command.
>
> the extension "should follow."

Ah, thanks. Never expected to have to do that.

The script should be written to use 'file' not just parse the extension.

Thanks,
Alex