On Sat, September 19, 2015 06:51, Tony Mountifield
wrote:> In article
> <d0000782c236fbee71045dad24a43def.squirrel at webmail.harte-lyne.ca>,
James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> wrote:>> After some experimenting I have observed that overriding settings from
>> /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf in
>> /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf does not produce consistent
>> results.
>> For example, if I replace the default detail configuration in
>> etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf with:
>> Detail = High
>> It does indeed change the level of detail from the default Low set in
>> /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf.
>> However, if I comment out the line:
>> #Service = "-zz-sys" # Prevents execution of zz-sys
service
in the overridden file then the fact that this line remains in the
default.conf version means that the sservice cannot be enabled to
run>> by default without editing
>> /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf. Of course doing that
>> means that any update clobbers the local changes.
> Can you just add it back in /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf with:
Service = "zz-sys"> I haven't tried it, but it looks like Service lines are cumulative.
/usr/sbin/logwatch --range 'today' --mailto support at harte-lyne.ca
--service zz-runtime --service All
Wrong configuration entry for "Service", if "All" selected,
only "-"
items are allowed
As shown above, if you pass '--service All' then any later
'--service
X' option must be prefaced with a '-' ('--service -X'). In
other
words, once All is selected then one can only remove selected
services. In the config files this is the order used:
# The 'Service' option expects either the name of a filter
# (in /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/*) or 'All'.
# The default service(s) to report on. This should be left as All for
# most people.
Service = All
# You can also disable certain services (when specifying all)
Service = "-zz-network" # Prevents execution of zz-network
service, which
# prints useful network configuration
info.
Service = "-zz-sys" # Prevents execution of zz-sys service,
which
# prints useful system configuration info.
Service = "-eximstats" # Prevents execution of eximstats service,
which
# is a wrapper for the eximstats program.
So, no, one cannot restore a service that is deleted from the run in
default.conf by adding it back to the local config file.
I can understand what is happening here. The implementation of user
config files is conceived as being additive to the default
configuration. Anything not specified in
/etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf is picked up from
/usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf. Anything in
/usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf is overridden by any
similar entry in an earlier config.
This implies that the order of processing is:
/etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf
/usr/share/logwatch/dist.conf
/usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf
This seems to be something that needs to be fixed in the
default.conf/logwatch.conf file.
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