While there was some discussion by the kernel community around this on the associated bug, it appears to remain unresolved there. But it looks to me that Robie's assessment still stands that it wouldn't be appropriate to change this in just the logwatch patch alone. Given the age of this bug, I'm going to mark the logwatch task closed as I don't think there's any further action we can take on it at this time.
** Changed in: logwatch (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to perl in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1030519 Title: /proc/self/exe is not necessarily correct on overlayfs Status in logwatch package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in perl package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Perl should check the value from /proc/self/exe for correctness. I'll open a bug in logwatch also, however there are likely many more applications that make use of this and depend on it's correctness. Bug number 1007089 tracks the overlayfs bug. /etc/cron.daily/00logwatch: sh: 1: /bin/perl: not found sh: 1: /bin/perl: not found system 'cat '/var/log/mail.log' '/var/log/mail.log.1' | /bin/perl /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/shared/expandrepeats ''| /bin/perl /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/shared/applystddate ''>/tmp/logwatch.BMbdlb_J/maillog' failed: 32512 at /usr/sbin/logwatch line 871. run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/00logwatch exited with return code 2 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: perl 5.14.2-6ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.31-lowlatency-pae 3.2.14 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-lowlatency-pae i686 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8 Architecture: i386 Date: Sun Jul 29 09:06:20 2012 SourcePackage: perl UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-03 (208 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/logwatch/+bug/1030519/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp