logwatch customizing?

Tom Horsley tom.horsley at att.net
Mon Mar 1 13:36:38 UTC 2010


On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 14:08:17 +0100
Chris Rouch wrote:

> Did you already copy it to the same directory under /etc/logwatch?
> Logwatch looks there for local changes.

Nah, I edit the file directly because if I make a local copy, I
don't get any updates (of course updates kill my changes, but I've
never had any problem re-applying them before).

For reasons I can't understand, I was able to make my change
happen by moving it into the chunk of code where it gathers
"unmatched" lines. I just discard it there instead of discarding
it earlier (which should have worked since it always did in the
past).

Maybe what I really need to do is put a local filter in /etc/logwatch
that discards all the lines I don't want to see, gthen runs the
rest through th


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