Bob Proulx grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > David Guntner wrote: >> Ok, upon further searching around, I think I found the problem. It >> looks like the config file location for the program moved somewhere >> along the way. It's no longer using /etc/logwatch (I *thought* that >> directory seemed kinda empty other than my lone ignore.conf file which >> had been there; it probably didn't get removed because it knew I had >> modified the file), but is now in /usr/share/logwatch/default.config. >> Which strikes me as a rather strange place to put config files.... I'll >> put my entries in the ignore.conf file there and see if that takes care >> of it. > > What does the NEWS file say about the migration? I expect that it > uses the /usr/share as default values and uses /etc/logwatch as a > place to provide customizations. > > Note that I don't know anything about logwatch. For Debian I am using > logcheck with logcheck-data plus many local customizations. > > Okay I looked. Please read the file: > > /usr/share/doc/logwatch/HOWTO-Customize-LogWatch.gz
Ok, I'll look at it. Thanks.
> It describes the new scheme and describes a /etc/logwatch/conf
> directory for local customizations.
Which, as I noted, I was originally using and yet was being ignored for
some reason. Maybe the file will have more on why it was ignoring me.
Either way, I've modified the
/usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/ignore.conf file to see if that helps.
I guess I'll find out tomorrow. :-)
--Dave
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