Re: Yum and Logwatch Reports
On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 14:47 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
Paul Howarth wrote:
> Don Maxwell wrote:
>
>> After upgrading from FC2 to FC3 (which was a SMOOTH and easy upgrade)
>> my logwatch reports no longer include a section on yum activity. I
>> have compared the old logwatch.conf and yum.conf files, but did not
>> catch a difference which might be a factor.
>>
>> I choose to let yum automatically install changed rpm files. Yes, I
>> know this can be dangerous, but I prefer the risk of potential
>> surprises over the risk of not getting around to manual involvement in
>> updates.
>>
>> In FC1 and FC2, the "yum" sections were useful so that I could get a
>> sense of what changed that showed up in my Tripwire reports.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140429
>
> Until such time as an official update comes out, I'll maintain an
> updated logwatch package that contains Gilles Detillieux's patch to
> fix this bug (see bugzilla entry above) at:
>
> http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/sysutils/
>
> Cheers, Paul.
>
Could you possibly summarise the manual changes to be made to fix the
problem?
The problem is that logwatch is configured to use the wrong date format
when parsing the yum log file. In order to fix this, a custom date-
parsing script is needed. This is the attachment to Comment #9 in the
bugzilla report referenced above, which should be put in the
file /etc/log.d/scripts/logfiles/yum/applydate (you'll probably need to
create the directory /etc/log.d/scripts/logfiles/yum and make the script
executable). The other thing you need to do is to
edit /etc/log.d/conf/logfiles/yum.conf and remove the line that says
"*ApplyUSDate", again as mentioned in Comment #9.
Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul(a)city-fan.org>