Package: logwatch Version: 7.3.6.cvs20090906-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch
Hello, was originally reported in Ubuntu here: https://launchpad.net/bugs/719898 Quote from original bug report by Oliver Brakmann: Hello, Debian/Ubuntu ships a cron service definition (in dist.conf/services/cron), which does not match any cron logfile entries due to a wrong "OnlyService" statement in said service definition. Currently, it looks like this: *OnlyService = (CROND|\/USR\/SBIN\/CRON|\/usr\/sbin\/cron) However, the logfile entries for cron look like this, so they don't match: Feb 16 09:11:11 deimos cron[641]: (CRON) INFO (pidfile fd = 3) Feb 16 09:11:11 deimos cron[654]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok) Feb 16 09:11:11 deimos cron[654]: (CRON) INFO (Running @reboot jobs) Feb 16 09:17:01 deimos CRON[923]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) I suggest changing the OnlyService statement to this (patch attached): *OnlyService = (CRON|cron|CROND|\/USR\/SBIN\/CRON|\/usr\/sbin\/cron) This applies to all Ubuntu releases, from at least Lucid to Natty. Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers natty-updates APT policy: (500, 'natty-updates'), (500, 'natty-security'), (500, 'natty') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
--- debian/dist.conf/services/cron.conf.orig 2011-02-16 10:33:44.390706236 +0100 +++ debian/dist.conf/services/cron.conf 2011-02-16 10:33:54.050727896 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ LogFile = syslog -*OnlyService = (CROND|\/USR\/SBIN\/CRON|\/usr\/sbin\/cron) +*OnlyService = (CRON|cron|CROND|\/USR\/SBIN\/CRON|\/usr\/sbin\/cron)
